by phillipw | Apr 8, 2020 | BU, EN
Blankness for Sale as Enlightenment The Buddha stands in golden skirts with sight Of toenails underneath. Above his waist Black’s lacquer torso brings the dynamite Of revelation. He has been erased Not just by gold and lacquer darkness: he Is broken. There below...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2020 | EN, RU
The Onion Dome in Western London, Weather, and the Orthodoxy of Entropy Subdued by rain and twilight and the gray Of sky, the blue shape holds its own, unchanged Despite these dull vicissitudes. The way It holds its gilded stars up high, arranged In formal pattern so...
by phillipw | Jan 3, 2020 | EN
At Last Supposed to be impressed by countless stars And planets, moons, by comet, asteroid— These globs of gas and rock in numbers far Exceeding grasp—I feel instead the void, The void, the void they streak and swerve through. The one important...
by phillipw | Dec 17, 2019 | EN
The Pyramid of Cheops “And God said, Let there be light.” The pyramid of Cheops thinks it’s still. In one sense that is true. It is still there, But not completely. Just like any hill It rose and it is crumbling. Wear and tear Attack the...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2019 | EN, PH
Entropy Dreary A scattering of snowflakes, each a little dawn Of pattern frittering itself away Across the morning air, is scrawled and drawn By gravity—or some much darker sway In modern cosmological theory. The physicists love thinking of a force In...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | EN, PH
After the Promise is Fulfilled Eternity is dawn forever, dawn Across a sky without horizons: light Is never tinged by night or darkness. Fawn Eyes deepen in their beauty and their sight Among immortal branches, bringing new, Fresh...
