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 | BR
British Library Metamorphosis The other day he looked just fine, his beard Scraped off, his hairy forearms hinted at By whiskered wrists, his whole look dress-shirt geared To middle-class propriety. He sat There under that fluorescent, genteel lamp And took tight...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | BR
Renoir Lips The Renoir lips and voltage eyes of blue, The shock of Tintoretto hair, two-toned In depths of blond and old-gold hue (As subtle as a shadowed Rembrandt, honed With strokes of perfect oils) define the head. The HD download lashes long and...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | BR
Rare Books and Music Reading Room How beautiful and long a face can stretch, In competition with a sculpture on A Norman pier, Modigliani sketch, Or long as a Tahitian mountain dawn. Can lips assume this richest red, as warm As classic bricks in glowing...
by phillipw | Nov 25, 2019 | BR, TI
Florida Today, because the air appears to blaze, I saw my brothers in the light of suns So bright that decades cannot dim their days. We played our games of brag and guns, Of pirate treasures gold like suntanned boys, Of daydreams live in afternoons so...
