by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | LO, ST
All the Joy that was Mine A part of me (my soul? my heart?) unfurls As if it were a rainbow sent out through A flame, or, opened, by his head of curls, A fan of ivory and silk, gems (blue, Set sapphires, topaz, opals) spreads new life Throughout expanding ribcage here...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | LO, RE
Hollywood vs. Us It is as if the movies were more real Than our own lives and loves might ever be— Ever. It isn’t right if we don’t feel It cinematically, if we don’t see It fraught in DVDs. A passion known In Queens or Slough, a paltry murder in Some...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | LO
Two Emperors in One We gave each other new identities As ghosts might when transfused with lovers’ blood. Where once we had been rootless, leafless trees, Limbs bloom. Red cherry comes from urgent bud. Where once we looked out from two far extremes, With...
by phillipw | Nov 28, 2019 | AL, BU, LO, SE
Phenomenal .A kiss is more than lips, spit, tongues and teeth .Luxuriating in a bedroom’s heat, .Exploring to blue veins and nerves beneath .Conventions recognized by skin. The beat — .Against the ribcage in each chest — of hearts...
by phillipw | Nov 28, 2019 | LO, RO, UN
Incomplete Creation I made you up, did I, I made up all? Were you the one I loved or were you just What mind and heart created, like a doll To stick long pins of love in, pins of lust, A doll more muscular than voodoo, you? I think I could have made up curled...
by phillipw | Nov 27, 2019 | LO, RO
. . . Mais Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If love were sovereign, we would navigate The dark canals of instinct in a bright Blue gondola, our songs reverberate A sea-shell colored,...
