by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | CH, ST
Above, the Ruthlessness, Below Churned up Shenandoah My friend has travelled to another sphere, A universe as unified as God In green Jehovah’s Witness Bibles. Fear Is absent there, but so is love, that odd Thing in the cosmos. I am left behind Like young Elisha on...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | AU
Pastels and Mists are not the Heights of Mystery The air of brilliant autumn days here in Vermont has something unexplained to say. New England has a revelation twin To mystery. Heavy with a light of day This revelation’s sense is not revealed. The mystery is...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | CH, ST
The Day that Never Came My Charles is not here. The wind moves through The sun-struck wheat, but Charles is not there. The early springtime trees beneath the blue Skies Windsor offers hold out their still bare Tree limbs. I often daydreamed I would show These...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | AS
Astrological Intimations Perhaps we should have been the Gemini And not Aquarians. Aquarians Are watery at best up in the sky. We should have both been harsh barbarians Of love, the pair of us, the twins of lust And not so much of brotherhood. We might Have been...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | KI, MU
King’s Dreary The sky lies blue on top of still canals In Cambridge. Perpendicular, the thrust Of King’s attempts to leave the drear locales And gravity behind. The sound of trust Arises from the boys’ voices in The soaring chapel...
