by phillipw | Apr 14, 2020 | RO
If They Think At All, They Think of Life The sun comes raking down with shining heat Across the stems, the leaves, and blossoms. They Expand with vegetable-like slowness, meet Light spread to it. They never think of gray. Instead, they meditate in calm on reds and...
by phillipw | Apr 14, 2020 | BE
The Councillor on Radio Four Today after the Grenfell Catastrophe The councillor on air is very plain. He wants the money. However urgent The need, however huge and hot the pain, They care about money. No detergent Can wash away that dirt. The bureaucrats, Elected...
by phillipw | Apr 14, 2020 | SP, TI, ZA
Zantedeschia, Spathe, Spadix, Anthurium, Philodendron, Tillandsia Cyanea, Etc. Those flowers, those ones that are not flowers, have weird Words given for the blooms that are not blooms. For scientists plain English disappeared When naming parts like these. In lab-like...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | DO, TR
TORToise President He bestrides the world like a colossal tortoise When everything he touches turns to mould, You know there’s something very, very wrong. His gold-like wife has sold herself for gold, Though, yes, we could have known it all along— That she’s not...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | CA, PR
Peace Accord He doesn’t, if he understands and knows His master is not angry. He has learned We do not want him through that door. He goes To stare out longingly. Romeo burned Less fervently for Juliet than our Pet, Prospero, desires to use that front Way. Still,...
