by phillipw | Jan 13, 2020 | GU
Pure and Gold ….. They rise, two domes, one white, one gold, and knurled Like pleated manna ice cream, exotic, Exoticism of the East, a world Away. Here they are, almost erotic Because they are so beautiful and shaped Like love, or like our loves...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | RI, VE
Getting Away with It Socrates said, “Alcibiades is unhappy because everywhere Alcibiades goes, Alcibiades takes himself with him.” If you were in a rented room with Paul On Howland Street, you too would want to spend Your time away from him, away from all That...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | RI
Forbidden Fruit/Fruit interdit Imagine then a little boy who finds A house set back alone in orange trees That has its windows barred but has no blinds. Inside a wonder world of toys he sees, The sorts of toys which everyone like him Would want. He tiptoes high to...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | RI, VE
An Alabaster Submarine: A Shakespearean Sonnet by Paul While They Lived in London and Accidentally Misplaced by Arthur Recently Discovered and Englished by Phillip Whidden …………The Gospel of Saint Luke 7:36-50 A submarine cathedral is the place...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | RI, VE
Heartless Books He spiralled through erotic books complete With spelling errors, and Church Latin ones, Complete with telling errors, sneered at sweet Tales “read by grandmothers” but not their sons. He even leafed through little children’s books But not...
