by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | AP, HU, OR, PI, PO, TO
The Tortoise Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Other poems by Apollinaire relate to Orpheus, for example, ‘The Tortoise,’ whose shell—a gift from Apollo—provided the frame of his lyre.” ~...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2020 | HU
Derived from Feudal Darkness Medieval canon lawyers were the first To moot an individual’s pale chance To have some rights in law, that tiny burst Of radicality. From there to France And chopping off the head of king and queen Was like a pilgrimage to truth...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | HU
Pure Eve and the Serpent Not one of us is wholly human. So They say. They mean that we are part divine Or that we have angelic bits, or low Down stuff in us; we’re worse than stinking swine, Yack, yack, yack, blah, blah. Blindly this ignores The obvious truth. Of...
by phillipw | Nov 8, 2019 | HU
Victor’s Meditation A hunchback rises there above the bells But nothing in this scene is like the hour Of stylized beauty in the Book of Kells Bent over in a cell. He aches the power Of hopeless love more cruel than the rack And flogging. Ugliness is...
