by phillipw | Apr 24, 2020 | CH
Simplicity and Complications The Virgin comes first, then an angel from On high, a rainbow bolt from heaven. He Speaks holiness so deep she must succumb. Already it has moved from simple. She Might think that she could hide in manger scene Alone, but no, the donkey,...
by phillipw | Apr 21, 2020 | AD, CH
Florida Sunshine Although my memories, bleached by time, by years And decades, are both pale and patchy, some At least float, vivid. Often those with fears And pain recede. Noon beauties overcome These bad ones. Photographs of me when blond, So blond that it...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | CA, CH, KI
Animalerie Vilmorin, 8 quai de la Megisserie, Paris The kitten, gray and striped with black, sat on Her haunches as she kneaded in the fur Of sister’s side. The sister gave a yawn And tried to suckle. If there was a purr We couldn’t hear it through the glass. The cage...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | CH, FR, MO, ST
Saint Julien-le-Pauvre, August 25, 2017, Dusk The icon held in holy dark behind The altar has a sacred candle lit In front of gilded beauty. Meaning lined Up from the flame agrees there on the armpit Of Christ in blessing. Steinway black and white Sends Chopin glory...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | CH
Philopoiêtai, Poetry Lovers from Time Immemorial “Plato’s Symposium shows how Plato deploys dramatic irony to undermine philopoiêtai’s use of poetry. Elizabeth Belfiore (“Poets and the Symposium”) argues that the dialogue’s first five symposiasts, in their poetic...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | CH, PR, RO
Unmasked I never dreamed I’d be a drag queen on God’s Grand Canal, a golden-nylon-haired One with the face of Princess Di, a swan That Dalí would be proud of, if he dared. I never dreamed I’d be impregnated By Charles, the Prince of Wales, while riding...
