by phillipw | Sep 29, 2026 | CH, FR, GR, LO, MA, ST
Incommunicado Grief For Charles Randall Stanfield The quick and the dead I wrote you sonnets. You were dead, though, then. I sat in Keats’s garden while I read Them into Hampstead wind. Among all men You were the only. In my heart and head Molasses had been...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2026 | FR, LO, MA
An Arsenal of Heavy Metal Miracles Inside the Atria and Ventricles “O friends, there is no friend.” ~ Diogenes Laertius A bombshell blasting made of misery, Exploding misery is what he feels. The bomb that he experienced falls free Of love, of friendship. Mostly men...
by phillipw | Sep 25, 2026 | CH, FR, LO, MA, ST
T∞m∞rr∞w and T∞m∞rr∞w and T∞m∞rr∞w Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My Charles is yesterday. He hit the wall Of God at 90 miles per hour. That time, His time, our time is more like angels’ fall And...
by phillipw | Sep 25, 2026 | AM, BI, CH, DE, DR, FR, HE, LO, LU, MA, SE, ST
Black Buckles Black No Matter What Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The grief for him does not belong to you Alone, though now you are alone, much more Alone. Black curly hair forever true Belongs to...
by phillipw | Sep 19, 2026 | FA, LO, SP, W, YE
At the Heart Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The beckoned coming The center holds — controls — and will control, — As falconer controls the gyring loop, Prevents the bird of prey while it patrols The land...
by phillipw | Sep 18, 2026 | BL, CH, LO, NA, SP, SU
Loveliness Despite the Difficulty of the Long Word “Logarithmic” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood vast and tiny The spiral of the...
