by phillipw | Jan 23, 2020 | AN, GR, PO
Grammar as Salvation: Strabo, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Longinus and Demetrius Grammarians saved poetry for us. They saved immortal poetry that would Have died except they loved making a fuss About small points of style. This brotherhood Of...
by phillipw | Dec 12, 2019 | AN, FA, PS
Freudian Slope When angels go insane, what does the Great Physician do? Does He invite them to His soft, silk-covered couch, help them uncrate Their dreams, discuss them, and reveal their true Anxiety? Perhaps He gives warm drugs Injected lovingly...
by phillipw | Nov 19, 2019 | AN, MU, PO
The Greek Gods Must Have Loved Simplistic Singing Fragment of Oxyrynchus hymn, Wikipedia The ancient Greeks were primitive about Their choral music. It was like a grade School choir in unison, with notes devout In worship of Apollo. One lyre played— Or aulos with...
by phillipw | Nov 15, 2019 | AN
Womtyjawed: an Annunciation ….. The Virgin is a brownish cipher placed Against a plinth, more like a mummy than The Mother of the Christ. She might be chaste, But then who wouldn’t be to any man Looking like that? Besides, the orange plinth Is pretty...
by phillipw | Nov 15, 2019 | AN, YO
Yonic Annunciation . “At the left stands, or rather crouches, the angel Gabriel, with his feminine, overly saccharine face and flowing locks, . . . holding . . . a strongly shaped phallic lily.” Larry’s Party,...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2019 | AN
Birth from Below the Dead Nine thousand, five hundred, and fifty years This tree has grown, or grown and waited, till Allowed to grow again, still more. It clears Millennia with patience. Seasons spill Across it with destructive powers. The cold...
