by phillipw | Feb 15, 2019 | DI
‘Dickinson was troubled from a young age by the “deepening menace” of death, especially the deaths of those who were close to her. When Sophia Holland, her second cousin and a close friend, grew ill from typhus and died in April 1844, Emily was...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2019 | OL
The sprint, the one event, the only race Was solemn, sacred, holy. Gods leaned down And over clouds to watch a handsome face Push forward to deserve the victor’s crown. No one, except those gods perhaps, could know Just how momentous was this triumph, for It led to...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2019 | MI
“What would a man not give to engage in conversation with Orpheus?” ~ Plato That marble minded Plato thinks of men, Not women, girls, or boys before they grow Their body hair in armpit, crotch, and then The beard. His brain was right since women glow With threat and...
by phillipw | Feb 14, 2019 | JE
John Updike in Rabbit at Rest has a Floridian Jew sneer that the proof that the Jews are God’s chosen people is in the fact that He gave them such pathetic enemies. The Romans thought destruction of the Jews, Jerusalem, and their shrine was not wrong, But just. Rome...
by phillipw | Feb 13, 2019 | AF
The shreds and shards of poetry we find From ancient Greece are like the battered heads On ruined statuary, both aligned With code breaking and loss, all tattered threads Of ragged tapestries preserved in sand, The dunes of shifting chance. The...
