by phillipw | Jan 3, 2020 | HE
The Chambered Hermit Crab My heart is like a hermit crab. It drags Itself around the graveyard ocean floor And looks for justice, love, and mercy, snags Abandoned shells—and settles for Protection. Pulling vunlerable parts Inside an empty sepulcher of lime, The...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | HE
Heart Wounds The lizard leaves its tail trapped in the cat’s Teeth, flopping against a puzzled whisker. The green chameleon starts a new length. That’s That. The starfish posture is much brisker: It can build back even one whole star flare. If...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | HE
A Reader Studying Ancient Law A bit too handsome, yes, but in a square Way, like Clark Kent , you know? He even sports The horn-rimmed glasses and the thick dark hair, But something’s not quite right with his nose. Warts? No! Not that bad, more like an onion’s...
by phillipw | Nov 6, 2019 | AD, CH, CL, GI, HE, KI, TE
….. Pubescent Vector Tom’s shoulders—knots of boyishness—were tied By Jahweh when in Baden-Powell mood But move in that white shirt where they must hide (Required by dress-code rule, to make Tom good), So they remain as veiled, as chaste, and...
by phillipw | Nov 4, 2019 | HE
The Golden Rule Philosophically Plated Take pleasure for yourself like hummingbirds. Give joy to others as you swallow juice They give. Ignore Religion’s numbing words. There’s nothing wrong with being jolly loose So long as you don’t harm...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2019 | HE, ST, WH
“kitty kitty kitty” Was All She Could Say I cannot now recall my mother’s throat In words. For more than twenty years her speech Was dead before she died. A muffling bloat Occurred inside her brain. It was a screech Of blood that silenced her. No...
