by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | DI
Crossbreed Charlatan The ex-Hippie, who became a Yuppie By selling New Age snake oil on the Web, An ageing Old English Sheepdog puppy, Whose fur and ethics, jointly on the ebb, Is now a man who’s mostly pathetic From any point of view. HIs thinning hair Is grizzled...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | DI, MA
Just Married * A silvery foil piece of confetti, Much larger than the usual size of This litter, waits there making its petty Claim. Subtly it doesn’t allude to love Where it fell, trapped between the cobblestones Outside the Guildhall wedding factory...
by phillipw | Dec 25, 2019 | DI, DN
Another Tree A spring tree drifts a blizzard from its life Through April air. This snowstorm blends the sun With floating fluff and white. The world is rife With hope again on this Good Friday. Shun Old winter’s frozen hair and all it bodes. Think...
by phillipw | Dec 11, 2019 | DI, GO
Leviticus 11:19 I’m really tempted–ain’t you?–to eat bats. I mean, they’d be so succulent with all Those bugs they’ve munched, more delicate than rats On palate, right? Yep. Those fly-flavored, small Bones inside...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | DI, PI
It’s not Much of a Stretch to Say Annie Dillard Reveals that Life = Death Who doesn’t have a fantasy that’s dark? It comes up from the undergrowth like slime Or other fungi. It’s the basic quark That psyches stretch out from. It bides its time. Some night it...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | DI, FR, NI
“One Soul in Bodies Twain” and Diaghilev’s “one in private life” The ocean of men’s friendships spreads too vast For those who think about it to presume To use taxonomies which tend to cast One sinkered net across love’s waves and spume, One flaring circle that...
