by phillipw | Feb 24, 2020 | AR, PA, RI, VE
Miss Manners I am an ephemeral and a not too discontented citizen of a metropolis considered modern because all known taste has been avoided in the furnishings and the exterior of the houses as well as in the plan of the city. ~ Rimbaud on London A...
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2020 | HA, LO, MA, PA
Hawaii Teaches Us the Truth The thought of love as a manicured lawn Is more a maniac’s idea than real. This explicates why marriage rules are drawn Up mincingly by gods and men who feel That actualities must be ignored. These legislators manicure the turf And tamp...
by phillipw | Feb 18, 2020 | PA
Appearance “A Family Group” by John Koch A shaft of mirrored light steps through the glass And sweeps the surface of the oils. They show A family in a cadenced pose. This chasse The slippered beam here calmly makes is slow, Perhaps...
by phillipw | Feb 11, 2020 | PA
Long Underwear and Hot Water Bottles vs. Mills and Boon Those things we take for granted like the greens Surrounding us in Windsor, greyish clouds, Our waking up, and toast and tea routines, The tastelessness of Tuesday shopping crowds On Oxford Street the week before...
by phillipw | Feb 6, 2020 | PA
Exorcism A man who cannot tame his heart, control Its snarling, wild excesses is a waste, A waste and glory. He is like a scroll With marring marks which cannot be erased, Yet underneath them in a fuming gold, The words of God, enflamed like Sinai, Are...
by phillipw | Jan 22, 2020 | PA
Unsentimental The frozen tarn, so dark below, so bright Across its surface, can’t be happy, sad Or feel emotion, either black or light. Above it rime-trimmed saplings cannot gad About in frolics, move in mourning or Have feelings harbored in their swaying...
