by phillipw | Dec 9, 2019 | NI
Nocturnal Resurrection The city had a daytime nightclub’s face, A stolid look like Mussolini’s brow In plaster cast. Who would have guessed this place Perceived itself the figurehead, the prow Of culture in its colonnaded past? Perhaps it thinks so still,...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | CA, LE, NI
Commencement: May Day At last, the miracle comes round again: Bright blossoms, leaves are born along the bough And May Poles rise—while no one thinks of pain; Commencement, so long striven for, is now! Commencement comes, a miracle for one Among the caps and...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | DI, FR, NI
“One Soul in Bodies Twain” and Diaghilev’s “one in private life” The ocean of men’s friendships spreads too vast For those who think about it to presume To use taxonomies which tend to cast One sinkered net across love’s waves and spume, One flaring circle that...
by phillipw | Sep 18, 2019 | ET, NI
Nietzsche’s Law of the Eternal Recurrence http://norsemathology.org Repetition is powerless before Ecstasy. Rosaries cannot deny The urge for semen, chanting still the whore. Adultery invades the manly eye A hundred trillion...
by phillipw | Sep 15, 2019 | AB, AE, BE, ES, MA, NI
Abel, Niels Henrik ……………………Wikipedia …..Wikd Could someone please propose equations for The beauty of a man? They must include His hair (of course) and—if divinest Thor Resembled him in any way — warm hued...
by phillipw | Aug 18, 2019 | LO, NI, SI, WI
Aunt Wilma Forces Me ..to Plant a Gardenia on Lorena’s Grave Aunt Wilma is second from the left What happens to a voice when it is dead? The vocal cords will rot, of course, the lungs Will shrivel, wither. In a coffin bed The voice will evanesce like...
