by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, MA
Troy in New Orleans, Manhattan, or London So I found “Helen” sitting in a streetcar; the Dionysian revels of her court were transferred to a Metropolitan roof garden with a jazz orchestra;and the katharsis of the fall of Troy I saw approximated in the recent World...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | BE
Monarch on the Cushions of his Throne He has a rattan halo over him. He lies on velvet and embroidery. The rattan is a woven saint-like rim Come down as if by heavenly decree To change the world forever for the best. The velvet on his cushion is a red Of royalty...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | BE, MA
Penis Penance Just how can women cope when men are more Gorgeous than their female matings, as strong As gondolas’ slow rocking on the shore Of Serenissima; or like a long Boat set by Viking sinew on the waves In Arctic storm of sleet that muscles...
by phillipw | Mar 6, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, MA
Blond and Black: Victor in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room That blond one now has risen in my mind. The sight that I remember most is blond, Blond curls, a curving beauty that might blind Unwary men, a loveliness beyond The fatal sight of Gorgon snakes. His...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | BE, MA
The British Library Rare Books and Music Reading Room; Why Go Search for Black Diamonds in Deepest Mines, Far, Far Away? I like the way his shoulders hunch in curve And swell when he is sitting calm in thought, But even more I love the darkened swerve Of almost...
by phillipw | Feb 28, 2020 | BE, MA
True Beauty I watched true beauty as the bus rode past The landscape Oxfordshire rolled out. The nose Sat nobler than the slopes that will outlast Him, but its shape turned hillsides into prose. Those poems, though they now were only thought In...
