by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | BE, BR
British Library Brown and Black Reader The normal word is shadows. That’s too strong A term for soft gradations on his face Of light and lesser light. They fall along This ridge, that slant of skin, and make the trace Of beauty blend into grace where lonely...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | BE, BR
Far from Grim He has a wayward symmetry, not right Like Christ’s, this hair a harmful Rupert Brooke’s. The marble-like complexion gathers light, Transluscent, pure, too beautiful for books. The faintness and the flawlessness of skin Stretched...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2019 | BE
Sting in the Tail A chaos of hot humming fills the yard Where countless frantic bees create a mesh Of winged futility. Beekeepers guard Their heads with veils of wire, protect their flesh With sticky gloves and khaki in a sweat While doing their dishonest...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2019 | BE
If Only If only . . . it were true that perfect face And fetching body contours equalled good, That silk-like lashes on the eye meant grace Of character—and lovely dimples could Be parallel with rectitude of soul, That lips demanding urgent kisses might...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | BE
A Trio of Sonnets–Rare Books and Music The way the wool is bunched in darker folds Of green against the lighter verdant wool Enunciates his hiding bulge and scolds The eye to stare enraptured at the full Imperial swelling of the shoulder where Secreted...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | AE, BE, ES, UG
Grimm Truth in the British Library Rare Books and Music Reading Room Lots of us are just not beautiful. Yeah? Perhaps not ugly, no, but pretty plain. (Forgive the big-nosed paradox.) Not BLEH, But not so gorgeous that it causes pain. The lip as thin as primness or...
