by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | KI, MI
Lightest Dusky Orange, Pearly Grey, and Softest White; Her He Should Have Worshiped Poor little darling Minon got ahead In life by starting from behind. They dumped Her in the basement. She hunted bread To keep from death. From that bad start she jumped To...
by phillipw | Oct 10, 2019 | CR, MI
Golden Miami Viewed at Night from the International Space Station Before Jehovah’s breath commanded light, The dark ruled absolute in every place Except where God enjoyed his perfect might, Perhaps. There was no nighttime there. God’s face Was altogether...
by phillipw | Sep 18, 2019 | MI
A Diminished Thing The ruin of a stylish building, he Presides now over that dull avenue Late Middle Age. Not near senility, This man’s poetic as Kalamazoo, Yet once he was a skyscraper with black Curls. They are going thin and turning gray. His massive...
by phillipw | Jul 2, 2019 | MI
Light Killing Light The Milky Way is one prolonged, hot sigh Of birth and life and dying. Whites and blues And yellows, splayed across an iron sky, Explode, implode, imbibe each other, fuse Their destinies together, cannibals Of cousins who mistakenly drift...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2019 | MI
“What would a man not give to engage in conversation with Orpheus?” ~ Plato That marble minded Plato thinks of men, Not women, girls, or boys before they grow Their body hair in armpit, crotch, and then The beard. His brain was right since women glow With threat and...