by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | AU, CO, PA, SI, SY
Burdens of Light The silences of country life are more Like shades than sounds. So quiet that they seem Like pastel tints in watercolors or The light beneath acanthus leaves we dream. Those silences are more like mist at dawn Above a pond than like a lack...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | DR
Resolution of Daydreams This year I must resolve to disregard To Do lists and the Devil. I’ll make peace With them. They’ve both tattooed me or have scarred My saffron meadows. They both blockade Greece And blue struck sunlight from a templed isle. They hate...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | ST
Broadmindness Touching Electric Fences He thought himself a mystic, though I don’t Believe he knew strict meanings for that word. He had these fuzzy notions: he was wont To stretch and blend. His holiness was blurred. B’hai was far too cut and dried for...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | CH, ST
An Agonizing Therapy Your death hurts just a little now, a jot Among the tittles in the books That fill the British Library and not Enough for life to notice in the nooks And crannies of the outward blasting bang That science tells us is our space. Your end Came...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | FI
Alpha and Omega So what if that First Cause is that First Cause? So what? Just how does that impinge on me? That CAUSE is more remote than Santa Claus In frozen Arctic regions in the twee Realm Rudolf ’s red, red nose is blinking in. That First Firm Fact is...
