by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | MA, SU
Moving towards Painted Velvet Perfumes The spring of white and pink is almost past. The yellows disappeared as well. Now cream And purples, pale and dark, have come at last. The heats of summer’s green, green, green now seem As far away as perfect charity, As...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | MA
Scaramuccia The masks that others wear cause more intrigue Than they themselves present. At least a mask Involves some planning, though the poor intrigue Is often basic. If your brain should ask The slightest X-ray question, you will find The most...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | MA, RE
Loving Freely If I misunderstand you, and if you Don’t understand me, then we are in love. At least that seems the only way for true Love’s husbandry in marriage. High above Mere passion is the need for mystery. A man whose partner has him figured out...
by phillipw | Mar 18, 2020 | BE, MA
Miles and Miles Miles, Miles ahead of every other one In beauty, he is lovely, perfect, great Like Gabriel when bowing to the Son Enclosed in Mary. Miles is as a gate Set down like gold in heaven in the wall Meant as a bar to Paradise and joys In bliss...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, MA
Troy in New Orleans, Manhattan, or London So I found “Helen” sitting in a streetcar; the Dionysian revels of her court were transferred to a Metropolitan roof garden with a jazz orchestra;and the katharsis of the fall of Troy I saw approximated in the recent World...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | BE, MA
Penis Penance Just how can women cope when men are more Gorgeous than their female matings, as strong As gondolas’ slow rocking on the shore Of Serenissima; or like a long Boat set by Viking sinew on the waves In Arctic storm of sleet that muscles...
