by phillipw | Jul 27, 2021 | BR, CO
Generosity is Gorgeous in a Georgia Morning Aunt Ruby never pulled an orchid from Her water well. Its bucket never raised Camellias up. What farmhouse buckets plumb For isn’t beauty. Water in them gazed At her and what she saw was her reflection on Its surface. ...
by phillipw | Jul 22, 2021 | CO, ER, FU, PE, SE
Precious Hardness, Precious Black Wood The leopards love the manly flesh of thighs With hair, the humid meat of men. Fangs love The bone of flesh hard maleness sings and size Of satiation that men give. Above These basics, though, the leopards want a feast Of gold...
by phillipw | Jun 22, 2021 | CO, CY, PH
Love Administered by the Local Council The little beauties disappear. We walk Past those for season after season, year On year. The world’s brownish evils stalk Them, though. A pretty pinkish, purplish cheer They give, the cyclamens that grow beside Each other just...
by phillipw | Jun 6, 2021 | CH, CO, DR, RE, ST
Loose Needlework The sage walks round in circles. Blessings burn. The blessings burn farewell. They burn the facts. They never matter. They are there to turn To incense all your scarred up faithless acts Against your wife, and son, and Jesus, too, Those...
by phillipw | Jun 2, 2021 | CO, GU, ME, NE
Phantom A special shadow might reveal much worse, Much more than just a silhouette of shade That trails you. It might cast a hex or curse That clings because of sly mistakes you made So long ago you thought that you should not Be punished for them, or the...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2021 | CI, CO, HE, TH, VE
“Resistance to Government,” the Tract that Wrested India from Britain and Led Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Lincoln Memorial Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Maine A natural Sabbath brings a...
