by phillipw | Jan 24, 2020 | RI, VE
Merry Go Round Glamor A large, significant proportion of The gay and bi community today Is desperate for the story of the love Of swirling Rimbaud and Verlaine to bray Out gaily as bright carousel horses’ Tunes, twirling like calliope pipes with Glee. This ignores...
by phillipw | Jan 24, 2020 | RI, VE
Emancipation Proclamation “You’re free alone with me,” the tyrant wrote To Paul when he had made his cowardly Decision and had fled by pettish boat. “I, only, offer you your liberty.” This freedom was la liberté of slaves, Though. La égalité was not discussed, Nor...
by phillipw | Jan 23, 2020 | RI, VE
Verlaine Afterwards Allow my dizzy head to loll against Your chest. Your kisses ringing like a bell, Because they are the last, are love condensed. Those kisses are as lovely as the knell Of wedding chimes for grooms who do not know Tomorrow. Let me drowse...
by phillipw | Jan 23, 2020 | RI, VE
Blackest Star “Poetry is a Destructive Force.” ~ Wallace Stevens “Panteurs cruelles” ~ Arthur Rimbaud, “Voyelles” A hurricane’s extremest blast is like The force of Rimbaud. Alexandrines fell Like Poland’s cavalry when the Third Reich...
by phillipw | Jan 23, 2020 | RI, VE
The Terrors of the Earth “Discussing, between moves, iamb and spondee, Anacoluthon” ~ Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, LVI Wild Christ will have revenges on you both That all the world shall — God will sear your things Till charred...
by phillipw | Jan 23, 2020 | RI, VE
Distant Intervals “It is the distant dramas of friends that are hardest to conjure up.” ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts, 239 “And it’s only at distant intervals that I see the friend to whom I’ve given all my affection” ~...
