by phillipw | May 12, 2019 | SO
A Plea from Sodom and Gomorrah Please return to pain and bruising, not scars With numbness in the tissue. Trauma gives A certainty at least. Those dense armoires Of pale cicatrice commemoratives Might be, you think, better than current harms That sting, then ache,...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2019 | Ho
φυσικά (Naturally) “Homosexuality in its highest sense is founded on intellectualism. It represents fundamentally an aesthetic conception of love. . .” ~ Wallace Fowlie, 1946 As rarefied as nearly empty space, The void between the planets and the stars, The...
by phillipw | Apr 22, 2019 | HI
The Highest of the High I tried to sing of politics and stuff Like that, the serious matters I’m supposed To write about. But that was not enough, No, not enough at all. I reached out, closed My laptop, and employed a fountain pen To make me set down those much...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2019 | ST
I Used to Think Unfailingly of Charles When I Passed that Tree I pass the giant redwood limbs each day Still. Something’s altered. It is not the tree. It’s more I don’t react to it. No sway Disturbs its dignity. A change in me Has made me stop remembering. ...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2019 | LO, RO, SE
Heavenly Bodies: We Made Night & Slept Separated After All The night we made was everything but dark. I put my surging galaxies inside You. Both of us thought twilight was too stark So we created moons — moons growing wide. A full moon that we made was not...
