by phillipw | Apr 14, 2025 | CA, PR, SE
The Freeze-dried Tale His heart is like a freeze-dried cherry in A box of cereal for lovers to Devour, as accidentally in sin Between the sheets, as casually they chew Him, breakfast in his bed. He nourishes Their greediness for cherry-ness in flesh. For him their...
by phillipw | Apr 12, 2025 | PR
Japanese Devotion and Pre-Columbian Grotesqueries Combine to Slaughter Mockingbirds Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The birds ram-smashed themselves against the glass Of windows in the Pre-Columbian Art...
by phillipw | Apr 10, 2025 | PR
Salt Water’s Wraiths The snow that hits Alantic waves is lost. The flakes give up their six-point shapes and souls. They lose their lives. A frosty Pentecost Does not redeem with icy tongues. The poles, Both north and south, condemn the frozen...
by phillipw | Mar 13, 2025 | AM, FA, PO, PR
“signifying nothing” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We do not want our poetry to reach The moons of Saturn. Reaching Saturn’s clouds Will be success. Those clouds are cousin speech...
by phillipw | Sep 10, 2024 | AU, LA, PR, RE
Goodnesss, Truth and Beauty, All A torch with smoke and gods unknown despatched The darkness, making more than art, much more. The spirit kingdoms, kin to men’s, were snatched Occult from realms unpainted, made to soar From mere reality and sent above To walls...
by phillipw | Sep 1, 2024 | AR, Ho, LI, MO, PR, VO
The Lion-Man — 35,000 to 41,000 Years Ago Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When craft, religion, mind first made a part Non-human man, part lion in a cave’s Space, Ice Age times ago, this early art...
