by phillipw | Feb 24, 2020 | FR, MA
Slapped in the Face with a Kipper “How much more agreeable it is for two male friends to live together than for a man and a woman.” ~ St. Augustine The problem with the saints is that they’re saints, Ignoring all the hints. They’re working out A...
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2020 | FR, LO, MA
Amor in Layered Ice “Every gathering is another heat wave against our foolhardy snow angels.” ~ Jaime Mathis The heart is an Antarctica despite The myths. Romance in glaciers and rocks Beneath them and in icebergs’ broken...
by phillipw | Feb 18, 2020 | FR, LI
Alert Discovering Americas inside Himself he never knew were there, he felt Apollo’s ranging thrust, Paul Bunyan’s stride Across their western deserts’ sagebrush pelt, Stepped out Atlantics and Pacifics, Lake Superiors, stretched canyons wider...
by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | AR, FA, FR
Facebook Pages I look at other people’s pages. Post, On post, on post. It is as if folk think (If that’s the word) that out there there’s a host Of hungry eyes so thrilled that they can’t blink Because of all the drivel there displayed To them by...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | FR
Cast in the Mould of Eternal Flame The law corrects the imperfections, flaws, And weaknesses of individuals. It can’t perfect them. Make as many laws As you might frame and still residuals Of cussedness will thrive like tares among Genetically engineered crops. Tell...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2020 | FR
Philosophical Advice about Friendship Two thousand years ago and more smart men Began to write philosophy about Male friendship. What they wrote on scrolls, again, Again, again was that they had no doubt That perfect friendship could exist between Two perfect men of...