by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | MA, MO
Something’s Got to Give She cornered all the legends. She became The legends’ curves. The moghuls and the sports Star tried to lasso her godessness, lame And crippled though it limped with all its warts Of mental instability. The mark Of beauty on...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | BR
How Many Continents? How many continents and oceans has He crossed to come and sit here in this place? With yellow cheekbones elevated as An ancient scholar’s parasol, this face Is calmer than the autumn moon. The march Of eyebrows laid on brusquely, widely by A...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | NE
I Make Another World I make another world just for us. I start to make it now, because of you, Because you’ve made the world a Hesperus, A dooming star, and so we need a new Edenic place to make our love. No tree Is veiled with sly temptation or with threat...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | LO, RO
I Want to Take You I want to lift you back before the start Of everything. I want to knock you back Before God spoke, before there was a heart, To that eternity when light was slack And waited breathlessly like Adam in The dust. I want to take you back before...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | ST, UN
Straight The look on my young face did not make you Unbutton shirt or heart. N o whisper came From you, not even once, though once we two Kissed. Kissing only made a distant frame Around your ...
