by phillipw | May 19, 2020 | NE, UN
A Gold-like Necktie from the Metropolitan Museum of Art I’m wearing unicorns around my throat And near my heart. Of course they’re cream-like white, Though on their necks in gold fields where they float Are clasped wide collars of a red not bright As blood but darker,...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AN, MI, NE, PO
Helmeted Brain and Tectonic Plates Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Athena and Poseidon do not meet inside My mind and doubtless not inside my heart. They face each other off: she virgin bride Of...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | AS, CA, CH, ME, NE, PO, SA, ST
“Like Some Clean Beast” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “In the evenings at Streonshalh . . . farm labourers gathered to play the harp and to sing. Caedmon . . . was in the habit of withdrawing to his...
by phillipw | May 2, 2020 | AU, NE, VE
Vermont Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A white wood house defines the slope. The trees Have gone to red and flame. A field beyond Is spread with grass and granite rocks at...
by phillipw | Apr 17, 2020 | CO, NE, UN
NecroPhillipa I can’t afford the kind of perjury To make me young and beautiful again In this life: the best of plastic surgery Is well beyond my grasp. Besides the pain Is more than I could bear. Perhaps I could Afford a burial arrangement, though,...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2020 | AS, NE, ST, SU
Thorn- Żytkow The one who is the heavy star inside Gives gravity to hold together red Intensity. His presence is implied Because the more amorphous one was fed By greed that made the weighty globe suck in The essence of the one in orbit with Him,...
