by phillipw | Nov 5, 2019 | DR
Out of Our Minds in Our Minds I disapprove the dreams I have in bed. I can’t control them. They are like a drug Injected in my brain. They’re colored dread And silliness all tangled in a fug. I cannot like my daydreams. They are far Too stupid, colored happiness...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2019 | GA
Contradiction in Free Sperms Now why should marriage be the thing that nabs Top billing? It’s a mere pact written out In lace and flowers. Frilled legality grabs The spotlight. Doubtlessly there’ll be a pout Among the drama queens upstaged, the mums And dads who...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2019 | CH, ST
The Missed Lightning Rod I used to look up at that redwood tree Each time I passed it and it made me think Of you. It loomed there like a tall decree That I remember Charles, a giant link Between us two. I never crossed the road To smell it or to feel its...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2019 | CH, ST
Love. Love? …………………………..“Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds” My grief for you began before God killed You, long before you died. I grieved for you When you went off...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2019 | CH, ST
Chuck’s Acer Bursts to Final Oxblood Life So bare all winter, now the little tree Is bursting out towards rich red truth. The leaves Evince a burgundy of promise, free Of lack. Though still too pale each one perceives Its destiny more clearly than...
