by phillipw | Jan 24, 2020 | IS, PR, RA
[This is about one of the guards at the entrance to the Rare Books and Music Reading Room.] Besides, I’m the Foreigner I like him for his gentle, almost sly Smile, nearly shy, but, no, not quite. A smile That’s mostly in the lips but in the eye Is boosted on a face...
by phillipw | Jan 24, 2020 | OE, PR, RI, VE
The Deaths of Mad Queens The heroines in Racine’s tragedies Are monsters, dignities destroyed by heat Of passion harder than a marble frieze, Rock lust for man or boy. Queens’ hearts replete With rage and love, this royalty is blind As Oedipus’s eyes with jelly...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | DE, JO, PR
Josquin des Prez Polyphony of beauty and of voice Without obscuring instrumental sound Made churches of the Renaissance rejoice And made Josquin des Prez’s chansons bound From palaces to houses of the whores. But where is Josquin now? He carved his name...
by phillipw | Dec 22, 2019 | NU, PR
Short-term and Long-term Fulfilment Wikipedia Those women who collaborated (fucked) With Nazi males (and females?) there in Gay Paree, who opened German trousers, sucked Out furs, foie gras, and francs along with spray From Korporals’ balls, were dragged into the...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2019 | CA, PR
Prospero’s Priorities: He Goes Straight Out the Door My cat believes that he should be a cat. He knows that he’s conflicted in this thing: He thinks he’s tip top, an aristocrat, And so deserves each comfort I can bring Such as a heated mat and that his man Should...
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...
