by phillipw | Nov 7, 2019 | RE, TR, UN
David, the Adulterer, or David, the Whimpering “I’m sorry, Dad” Guy; You Choose Goliath in the guise of love stalks round Us in the margins of our days. Truth dressed In tessellated sentiment is found In mosques and synagogues. Cathedrals test Our...
by phillipw | Nov 4, 2019 | RE
“We Will Remember Them” Another soldier’s face comes on the screen As meaningless as if the box were blank Or as a hardcore pornographic scene With yet another coupling, clank, clank, clank. They give his name and we think, “Well, so what?” As unconcerned...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | FR, LO, RE
Eleven, that Odd, Unfortunate Number When everything is wrong or slightly wrong, such As sex and love and friendship, all that you can Expect are travesties like using a crutch Pressed into an armpit tumor in a man Endeavoring to walk the world, every part Of it, as...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2019 | RE
Alien Piety Religion comes to me in little waves Or more like ripples on the warming sea Around my thoughts and pulsing nerves. The caves And sounding feelings that are really me Along this coastal tide refuse the hints These riffles whisper in their...
by phillipw | Oct 10, 2019 | RE
Emotionless Truth, Emotional Truth I tweak the Buddha’s nose. He doesn’t seem To care because of meditation or Of stone. The universe is merely dream To him and marble. There isn’t pain for Gautama. Curls like ice cream extruded About his scalp have...
by phillipw | Oct 8, 2019 | DA, DR, MA, RE
I Wake and Find my Life Was Dreaming My dreaming makes reality unreal— The dreaming makes my daily life more dream Than actuality. Then daydreams feel More vibrant than my life and make it seem A vanishing mirage, pastel and pale, Like watercolors spread...
