by phillipw | Feb 21, 2020 | RO
Negative Space It used to be that when I spoke your name The air would shimmer with auroras high Above the fjords. It almost caused a flame Beyond the spines of mountains. In the sky Ghost solar flares much higher than the pole Were captured as...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2020 | LO, RI, RO, VE
Pleasure, Prussian Pain: Verlaine Remembers Arthur’s Eyes Your eyes went blue in through my heart, straight through The blue that was my heart and bored through night, Straight through my night and out into a new Blue dawn, a morn so full of blue and might That...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2020 | LO, RI, RO, VE
Verlaine Conducts the Tribunal: Rimbaud’s Eyes I try to fathom why he has that haze In fluorite eyes. No one can tell. I’ve asked His friends about that gaze. They all go blank. Not one of them when tasked To give interpretation of his black And...
by phillipw | Feb 13, 2020 | LO, RO
My Third Grade Teacher Taught that Blue & Brown Don’t Go Together Well I would make blue orbs to look at you, Blue orbs of crystal or of clearer cool. My own blue fronted orbs, each iris blue For looking for perfection, for the jewel Perfection of your browner...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2020 | RO
All in Good Times: Two Sonnets on “Love is Blind” Let’s live in darkness, you and I, and fail To see each other as we are. Let’s start By touching, reading one another’s Braille With fingertips, and mouths, and tongues (each part Most sensitive to love). Let’s...
by phillipw | Feb 11, 2020 | AS, BI, LO, RO, ST, TW
SR PW Two stars that give off light unlike the light Of other stars, so different from their rays That creatures on far distant planets, bright As it might be, cannot hope to see our blaze, We circle in our gravity around Each other, close, so close...
