by phillipw | Apr 11, 2020 | LE
Sappho and Lesbian Sex Films for Men to Perv Over “And when we come across the ‘I’ in early poetry . . . we have to read that pronoun warily. What the ‘I’ says belongs to the performer [means what the performer wants it to be]; it may have been factually true for the...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | AN, HE, LE, MU
Whistling in Koranic Wind “We will meet in the Paradise of free souls to which you will never have access.” ~ Antoine Leiris addressing the islamists who murdered his wife, Helène Muyal Helène Muyal A sentiment so lovely must be true. At least the part of us some...
by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | FE, LE
[When this sonnet was written, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy of books about his walk from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (which he refused to call Istanbul) had still not been finished. Indeed, it never was. The third volume was called appropriately The...
by phillipw | Jan 16, 2020 | FE, LE
A Wintry Gift According to Leigh Fermor, Keats was found In rooms filled up with antlers in a schloss Which Patrick visited. A Horace bound In gilding and in green he took across The continent—a sixteen hundreds book. It was a baron’s volume handed to...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | CA, LE, NI
Commencement: May Day At last, the miracle comes round again: Bright blossoms, leaves are born along the bough And May Poles rise—while no one thinks of pain; Commencement, so long striven for, is now! Commencement comes, a miracle for one Among the caps and...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2019 | LE
A Wintry Gift From ghostofelberry.wordpress.com According to Leigh Fermor, Keats was found In rooms filled up with antlers in a schloss castle Which Patrick visited. A Horace bound In gilding and in green he took across The continent. A sixteen hundreds book, It...
