by phillipw | Sep 18, 2019 | PA
Paradise Tossed It seem to me that paradise would soon Become a glut, perhaps already is For those who dwell there. It’s as if the noon Had giant spotlights added and the fizz Of sixty billion sparklers, too, and then Someone lets off a hundred trillion A Bombs...
by phillipw | Sep 16, 2019 | AE, AR, ES, JE, OI, PA
Wonky Shoulder Christ Perhaps the reason why the painting makes Christ’s shoulder look deformed is not because The artist, Rubens, wants to show God aches For human suffering he’s caused with flaws In his creation. Why this wonky joint Was perpetrated on...
by phillipw | Sep 15, 2019 | PA
Loving Parents–Wanting Rid of her Son I have some friends from early in my life, A loving couple, he a former priest (Well, pastor), she, well . . . she a loving wife. The reason that his ministry has ceased And he has turned to mending cars is that He was a bit...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2019 | LO, PA
An Anatomy of Love: To a Nurse Dawn comes to where your solid throat and jaw Lie cupped in fingers not distracted by This wedding ring, and where your liquid eye (Behind its frail, fringed lid) twitches in awe Of nightmare scenes made worse by being...
by phillipw | Aug 13, 2019 | GA, GL, KI, PA
Alone and Unsupported Within our little lifetimes heroes rose More great than Heracles, and greater than Achilles’ myth. John Glenn and Yuri froze Out Jason in his little Argo. Man Leapt up beyond the earth, up past the sky, Beyond the stratosphere, where...
by phillipw | Jul 13, 2019 | PA
More Pointed than Pantheism The god of gods appeared on earth today. He settled on a springtime tree—a crown Of whitest pink and petals came straight down From heaven. There they murmured silent whims Of glories that no mortal eye has seen. They chanted without sound...
