by phillipw | Sep 23, 2019 | CO, DE, MA, SP
Breathing Death The pink magnolias creased, bruise-brown, well nigh Immediately in springtime air. The breeze Came blustering and wrinkled in the dye Of death on unsuspecting trees. Of course they will not die, not yet, nor yet These fleshy blossoms opened...
by phillipw | Sep 19, 2019 | CO, TO
A Garden Variety Tory I know a man who tells the people in His carpool all about the previous night’s TV, and of the biscuits and the gin He found on special offer, and the fights Between his children after they are sent To bed. Of course, the...
by phillipw | Sep 19, 2019 | CO
Oval Loneliness Is it the gravity of love that you So fear, which makes you take the comet’s way, A course that you have set careening through The spaces where companionless you sway In routes of brief encounters, your life tailed By...
by phillipw | Sep 13, 2019 | CO, JA, MA
The Third Largest Personal Collection of Jazz Recordings in the world: He Kept it Clean No Liberace ever glittered here In Titusville. He never lost a ring Of amethysts and gold at Sand Point pier, Or platinum and diamond-bright bling At Little League in hell-fired...
by phillipw | Aug 11, 2019 | CO, IN
Twenty-four Carat Turing They’re on the way to building techy brains With nano wires of coated silver. Gold Might do, but maybe not, since leaving strains Of greed would be too human. Strands enfold A new creation of electrics which Exists in nanospheres...
by phillipw | Jun 11, 2019 | CO
Comets: Comet 46P/Wirtanen to Be Viewed from Venezia, Serenissima A glowing circle smudge of aqua light Sails through the constellation Taurus with An icy pinprick at its heart. Too slight For naked eyes to see, its tiny pith Is emanating glory in a sphere Of coldest...
