by phillipw | Nov 8, 2019 | CH, DR
Abandoned for Skip on Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. . I met you in a Georgetown street one day Alone among the shopping crowds, we two. We talked as if you had not left us all, Left me and others, wife and Matt, who grew Away in pain. He used to hit his mom So...
by phillipw | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Eden and Methuselah I’m glad that I can’t shed my skin and grow A new persona since I might succumb To that temptation. I’d shed age below Me onto others, Eve-like, who might come Too close. I’d offer the besetting sin Of being old and slackened, arthritic, And...
by phillipw | Nov 7, 2019 | MA
Hair¡Style¡Class Hair short, the scalp (mumblingly visible) Says, “Modest and male, this one,” but the long- Haired, balloony Afro, risible Boy all but shouts, “Hey! Everyone should throng Around my hard on heart, or I’ll be hurt, No, angry like a...
by phillipw | Nov 7, 2019 | CO, SE, Z
Affirmation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.” Jehovah made the palms of Zanzibar (Observed from high above as we...
by phillipw | Nov 7, 2019 | LO
Kilimanjaro Obscured The drizzle came in stealth before midnight, Continued like the mind, fixated, of A leopard on a limb, flexing for flight Downward on its prey. This fate from above I met with tourist equanimity: The sleepy thought that comforted me was,...
