by phillipw | Mar 19, 2020 | GO, SM, TH
The Larger Picture At Oxford Artie took a First, then went To teach in Kenya. There he sat out on His little porch and taught us what is meant By dedication. His unruly lawn Was near the Great Rift Valley as he stretched Young minds in mathematics. One to...
by phillipw | Mar 19, 2020 | DE, FA, MO, NI, SE
Selenicereus Grandiflorus I planted night-blooming, LARGE white blossomed cacti in my white garden in Kenya overlooking the Great Rift Valley. They were planted so they could climb into trees at the edge of my Moon Garden–and the edge...
by phillipw | Mar 18, 2020 | AN, GR, SO, TR
He Won More Victories, With Hammering More Hard . . . and Better The greatest playwright of them all loved boys. https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/13481 Competitors loved prostitutes. Their whores Were high-class (mostly). Still their slippery joys...
by phillipw | Mar 18, 2020 | RO
The Void An emptiness so empty it contains Almost nothing, emptier than outer Space, lives inside me now. It makes blank stains On blanknesses. It is like a doubter In heaven’s streets, a vacuum that blots Out color. Atoms, clear not white, send...
by phillipw | Mar 18, 2020 | DR, NI, SU
Subconscious The deepest part of memory is a trench, The black of seabed wound. The strangest part Is not the darkness or the tides that wrench The conscious mind. No. Claws and teeth that smart The brain convulsively come up to bite Or tear at us in...
