by phillipw | Oct 4, 2018 | L
Death’s Lepidoptera Sample My face falls hard against the layered plush Cloth. Underneath is trapped his curly hair Inside a ziplock bag. My whiskers crush Themselves against the folded towel. A flare Of one immortal flame, this curl, or so it seems, The tress is not...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2018 | DE, LO
The Island of the Dead I sail to see the island of the dead. A stillness emanates from it across Its mist of waves. This quietude is spread...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2018 | P, PO
Poetry is Not the Lever and Fulcrum of Archimedes “The full-flowering Scottish tradition of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas was defeated when Scotland was defeated.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The Story of Poetry War changes poetry. Old English verse Had reached an apogee of...
by phillipw | Sep 20, 2018 | S
Shàn in Abundance I know a woman in Beijing who cares. She cares for cats. She rescues them the way The Buddha might. She takes them in and shares Her tiny income with them. People flay And eat them in the south of China. She Protects abandoned cats. When I...
by phillipw | Sep 5, 2018 | Z
Zero Truth from Ancient India or the Olmecs It wasn’t an Islamic scholar who Formulated that non-number zero. No matter how much Muslims might want to Deny that fact, the actual hero, An ancient, not even slightly linked with The Arab world, did it. The simple fact...
