by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | AN, MO
Assaulting the Backbone of Beauty The deliberate program, then, of a “break” with the past or tradition seems to me to be a sentimental fallacy. ~ Hart Crane Pathetic prophet Crane did not foresee de Kooning or that Jackson Pollock reek On canvass. Crane’s...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | AN, HE, LE, MU
Whistling in Koranic Wind “We will meet in the Paradise of free souls to which you will never have access.” ~ Antoine Leiris addressing the islamists who murdered his wife, Helène Muyal Helène Muyal A sentiment so lovely must be true. At least the part of us some...
by phillipw | Feb 26, 2020 | AB, AN, HA, RO, YE
…..Suffocated Devotions ……….“the fame of his lost love” Who cares about the love of Yazid choked Forever in that clogging of the throat, About Antinous, whose death is cloaked In rumors and suspicions as they float Above the marble whiteness of...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2020 | AN, BO
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Dieric_Bouts_-_The_Annunciation_-_WGA2979.jpg Fingered: an Annunciation poem The only things that matter in this scene Are Mary’s hands. Her head is egg-like to A laughable degree; the...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2020 | AN, EL
Magnificat He stands upon a giant gallstone. Why Is not explained. Around the painting small Ones are deployed in clumps to hurt the eye. Perhaps the purpose is to hint, as tall And stretched as possible, the pain...
by phillipw | Jan 25, 2020 | AN, AR, MA
Immortal Anthems of the Holy Ones; They Forget the Cost …… In raw solemnity the angels voice A rush. They sing of all the martyrs who Have suffered darkest pain. Souls rejoice, The souls of seraphs with their wings grown two...
