by phillipw | Sep 28, 2019 | LO, Ta
Ephemeral Tattoo “Monsieur Dechartre,” asked Prince Albertinelli, “how do you think a mauve waist studded with silver flowers would become Miss Bell?” “I think,” said Choulette, “so little of a terrestrial future,...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2019 | LO
The Gemini Most loves are lost the moment they are born. Their DNA contains the genes to doom Devotion. Bonded chromosomes are torn, Though only slightly. They become love’s tomb As well, simultaneous the death and birth. Invisible, a corpse is there as twin Of baby...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2019 | FU
Funeral Games Some people marry several times. I tend To want not several weddings but instead To be the subject of various send Offs. I’ll have respective funerals to wed Eternity and me in death. I wish A sober one in black officiated By my brother, and a...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2019 | BE, HE
Feminine Beauty Just Ain’t Right “Hylas . . . is described in very un-heroic terms, with χαρίεντος (7) suggesting youth and beauty, and πλοκαμῖδα (7) emphasizing the boy’s ‘almost feminine prettiness’.” A hero can’t be pretty, beautiful, Or like a girl.,, (Well,...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2019 | LO
Passion’s Blind Carving Knife In London ‘they almost died of starvation.’ ~ Edmund White Inhabiting a wilderness of bored Clichés about the plight of poets, this Pair breathed in poverty the gods had stored Up for them from the moment their first kiss Sent Paul...
