by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | CA
Remembrances Canaveral dawns disclosed a light as clear As ospreys’ irises. Bald eagle’s claws Came grasping down on nests constructed near To God. Atlantic sand as smooth as gauze From stratospheric heaven saved the prints Of sandpipers. Pending lace and...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | BE, BR
British Library Brown and Black Reader The normal word is shadows. That’s too strong A term for soft gradations on his face Of light and lesser light. They fall along This ridge, that slant of skin, and make the trace Of beauty blend into grace where lonely...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | CO
[While being prosecuted, Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d’Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793) said, among other things, in response to the prosecutor’s questioning, “Oh, the monster! He thinks I am a common assassin!” In response to...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | KE
Keats’ House before Arthur A meager air like dimmed eternity Pervades the scene. The purple of the spikes Of crocuses is like an undersea Phenomenon in coral depths the likes Of which John Keats could not have seen Or conjured in his poetry. But still This...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | IS
Deformities It’s tripled Deuteronomy in length That Allah-spawned Koran, iron nippled In feeling, more than ninety proof in strength. Anyone who loves it ends up crippled By crushing combinations of its force And numbness at the boring sameness of It to...
