by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | EA, MO
Void What gives the Easter Island statues worth? Their meaning is beyond us. Since the faith That raised them died, is it their height, or girth, Or weight, or eeriness? Each stony wraith Of that religion is so foreign to Us now that it is less...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | HI, KI
Art Critics Speak As if we might be able to forget What Freud has foisted on us, artist Hirst Thrusts serpents and his monsters full of threat Up front and most are thick with penis thirst As anything that mental patients might Purvey. The female...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | PE
Bel Canto Border An opera is going on along My garden border at the front of my Spring lawn. The notes from pinking shears are strong And many shades of pink, of rose, and sly White petals, sly because the ruffled white Is pink if looked at...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | AN, AR, GR
Broad Marble Guidance Appropriating what we want from Greece Of centuries long, long past, we take the things We find uplifting. Statues white as peace Are chosen. Hermes lifts us up with wings That grow from swiftest feet. His beauty speeds Us up tabove...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | HI, KI
Depths and Shallows The Hirst exhibits were, he claims, sunk down Beneath the Indian Ocean’s waves. Once deep In waters their shallowness makes us frown. He left them there to dream of corals, sleep Among the lichens of the seas, and grow Worm casts. At least...
