by phillipw | Jan 7, 2020 | LO, RO
A Lyric Note Set Out in Various Inks A lyric note set out in various inks Comes up from where it’s lain forgotten years. A greeting card of flowers (but no pinks) Of yellow, purples and the shade of tears, This message tries to match inside the fold Of glossy white. ...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | LO, RO
I Want to Take You I want to lift you back before the start Of everything. I want to knock you back Before God spoke, before there was a heart, To that eternity when light was slack And waited breathlessly like Adam in The dust. I want to take you back before...
by phillipw | Jan 5, 2020 | LO
Who Wants the Love of a Metallic Man? ……. Who wants the love of a metallic man? We all do. We desire a lover who Will offer us affection like the span Created by suspension bridges—true Devotion made of stainless steel and bolts— And...
by phillipw | Jan 3, 2020 | LO, SA
Dessicated Wounds Our ancient poets often whisper in Slivers only, as dumb as crescent moons, But then are hardly mute. The centuries’ sin Is degradation of their voices. Dunes Against destruction have been washed across The manuscripts and yet now only glints And...
by phillipw | Jan 3, 2020 | AG, DI, LO
Its Message Like the Ring of Fire in an Annular Solar Eclipse Made by a Vivid Orb https://images.app.goo.gl/65cFVxwAkgtHNunF6 What is our planet but a little sphere Of blue, peculiar in the black of space, A blue embracing greens and orange, here And there the...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | LO
Tress Resurrection You know how people’s faces start to fade From you soon after they have died. That’s how It was with him. His lips seemed to evade Me first, and then his eye with velvet brow Went into shadow, that slow shade we hate (As much as I loved him). ...
