by phillipw | Mar 14, 2019 | RO
I re-arranged my china. England failed While I was doing that. The team was young As we’d been told ad nauseam. They paled To losers, though. I placed old cups among The others on a shelf as England’s team Lost. No, I wasn’t watching England’s game Against...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2019 | PA
We think papyrus was for writing on. This was not always so. The priests wore shoes From it in ancient Egypt. At the dawn Of writing culture, copyists would use Some parchment, vellum, clay, and stone. Some sails And cabling for bridges also came From stripped...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2019 | DI
When Emily abandoned schoolwork, she Assumed the baking in her family home. She turned away from the formality Of thinking of philosophers. Her dome Became the kitchen ceiling. Still, the view Outside that house took in the graveyard stones Of Amherst death. At...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Thomas Wentworth Higginson reported Dickinson’s comments about sweets in a letter to his wife: “‘People must have puddings’ this [was said] very dreamily, as if they were comets—so she makes them” (L342a) http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/book/export/html/44 Once...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2019 | TI
From giant, bulging cylinders the fans Sprayed out the fog to kill mosquitoes. How They acted I don’t know. Cancelled their banns? Abandoned buggy fucking? Stuttered, “Ow!”? I wonder if the city fathers were Opposed to free flight sex on buzzing wings. Were men...
