by phillipw | Feb 17, 2020 | GO, SU
The Central Singularity The blood of sadness is reality. The real stands far away from bloodless veins And not in shadows. No duality As Zarathustra saw it swells or strains Inside the marrow of the universe. Inside its bones where quantum physics seethes The...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2020 | CH, PH, ST, WH
Your Echo Comes from Long Lost Time ……. …………….. Your echo comes, reverberating from Lost hours, those twenty thousand days betrayed By absence, nights whose sweetness will not come Now, never be redeemed. Not even grayed Out...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2020 | CO, ZY
Annunciation While we are still inside the womb, mites, specks Of protein, not much more, our mothers host Mere little flakes of spirit, tiny flecks Of would-be souls, each one a proto-ghost Though prescience of sweat and death we lack. This long before...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2020 | AF
Making Light of Africa’s Future As if the darkness were not dark enough Already, blackouts flash their blackness on Us all. Across the continent they snuff Out light in travesties of promised dawn. The Naija attitude is mocked each time The lights go off. In fact,...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2020 | NA
His Soul Grips Him from the Depths Narcissus’ soul reached up just high enough From depths of water to invoke his love. His image seized him. Its embrace was rough, More like a rape. His beauty was above, Two times, upon the surface of the pool, And higher still...
