by phillipw | Dec 26, 2019 | PH
What the Photographer Did Not See There is a certain irony within The carefully contrived composition. One face is part obscured; that bit of chin Is veiled from view. A blond apparition Of glossy hair obtrudes beneath the smile. Is that a prophecy? This partial...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2019 | PH, WH
Span Span Span Span Span The earliest of colored pictures of Him shows him dressed in blue, but not a blue Of firmness, not a strong one. Pastel love Perhaps was its prediction. Pale is true, Though, also. Manliness is not required To be one hue. Maleness...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2019 | EN, PH
Entropy Dreary A scattering of snowflakes, each a little dawn Of pattern frittering itself away Across the morning air, is scrawled and drawn By gravity—or some much darker sway In modern cosmological theory. The physicists love thinking of a force In...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | EN, PH
After the Promise is Fulfilled Eternity is dawn forever, dawn Across a sky without horizons: light Is never tinged by night or darkness. Fawn Eyes deepen in their beauty and their sight Among immortal branches, bringing new, Fresh...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2019 | PH
Exposure A young man’s face half-hidden from the lens (By black hat, shadow or the hang of head Like guilt) commands my eyes in some slick “men’s” Designer/fashion magazine. I shed Clichés as macho scales desert my eyes; I...
by phillipw | Oct 31, 2019 | PH
Unthinkable in Philosophy (Certainly not Heidegger) Imagine a philosopher who writes In language clearer than the stars above Antarctic wastes, but warmly like the nights Scheherazade told tales in( to make love Last long enough to be true love). Her thought Would...
