by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
The Virus: Innoculation against Sentimentality The best fact of romance is that it cures You of romance. You fall in love with man Or woman, girl or boy, and that secures Protection from this illness. That will ban It from your later years. It’s best in youth,...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | LO, RO
Air Perfumed with Smouldering Frankincense Comes Ashore Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II The way that Paris floats around inside The heart and levitates around my mind, The way gold-trimmed, though black, gondolas glide So near my lungs and try...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | Ho, IS, LO, LU, RO
Testosterone Trumps Religions “Pleasure is the most insolent of all things; and … in amatory enjoyments, which are said to be the most powerful of all, even perjury has been pardoned by the Gods, as if pleasure was like a child, incapable of...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
Why It Is Not Good to be a Small Brown Butterfly A found poem from The Physiology of Love by Paolo Mantegazza and the book The Natural History of Love by Morton Hunt Caressing fondly with their wings, they reach The wing of one the other in a kiss. The silk and velvet...
by phillipw | Mar 18, 2020 | RO
The Void An emptiness so empty it contains Almost nothing, emptier than outer Space, lives inside me now. It makes blank stains On blanknesses. It is like a doubter In heaven’s streets, a vacuum that blots Out color. Atoms, clear not white, send...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2020 | LO, RO, UN
Gilt Thin on a Black Lacquer Chinese Screen No dragons hold my love up in their claws For you. My love is not important or White mythical enough for that. No pause Inside the cosmos happens when I pour Devotion out beneath your feet for you To...
