by phillipw | Dec 12, 2019 | PR
Chapel Royal, St. George’s, Windsor Castle Exodus 34:7 Numbers 14:18 Deuteronomy 5:9 Psalm 79:8 Psalm 109:14 “The night that is gone, to following night” We all are simulacrams of the past. Our pasts and ancestors are forever Gone; no, they...
by phillipw | Dec 12, 2019 | CH, DE, FA, LU, PR
Your Death Will Not Be Love Your death will not be in the order of The alphabet. Destruction comes as planned By God (predestination) from his love, From luck (though thinkers cannot understand That concept), or from nothing more than chance. Extinction doesn’t...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2019 | PR
Christ! Too! Late! Before that sandbar, Florida, arose, Before cold water filled Lake Erie’s deeps, Before the last two northern glacier flows Crawled down the top of Europe and left heaps Of house-sized bounders stranded in peat bogs, Before the...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | AE, ES, PR
A Hoodie in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room? A cruel face. Who’d think a blond moustache Could looks so fierce? A snub or pug nose that Would look cute somewhere else cuts a gash There, sticking out like the snout of a bat Surrealistically hung, suspended...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | PR
Studying the Church Fathers His hair and whiskers, eyebrows tend towards black, Those bristles near his mouth and then along His forearms close. He scratches at his back, Perhaps a pimple. No sonnet or song Will ever praise his manly beauty. Lo! Just some...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | AE, BE, CO, ES, PR
The Presentation in the Temple by Giovanni Bellini, Fondazione Querini Stampalia The Presentation in the Temple, Giovanni Bellini, Wikipedia Formality presents itself in lines, And shapes and curves, in balance, dark and light, In glowing surfaces while...