by phillipw | May 10, 2025 | CH, FL, SE, TI
Ephemeral and Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In sinking towns like Titusville the sun Is setting always. Little shopping strips Thrown up when you were just a kid are done,...
by phillipw | May 1, 2025 | BR, FL, SE
The Concrete Block Box This box is painted white and stands Against the colored world that wants to stain. A doctrine bundle tied with texts withstands The onslaught. Pure, the walls reject the strain Of U. S. Highway Number One so crude In stretch from Maine to...
by phillipw | Apr 30, 2025 | CH, SE, Uncategorized
A Resurrected Apollo in the Afternoon in Brevard County, Florida Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem No mist defied his eyesight but a haze Surrounded everywhere he walked. The grove Behind his boyhood...
by phillipw | Apr 20, 2025 | FA, MA, MI, RE, SE
Masculine Modalities A young man loitering is seen by guys Who pass nearby. A single one pulls close Inside his Mustang . . . loitering one sees eyes Consuming him. The younger one feels gross And turns his face away. Four other men In uniforms approach...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2025 | CH, Ho, RE, RO, SE
Semana Santa in Sevilla Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Flamenco singing calls for death to come. Death lives forever, stubborn, in Seville. In Holy Week the living, nearly numb From saints and...
by phillipw | Apr 14, 2025 | CH, Ho, RO, SE, SP
Hard and Soft The virgin wearing her mantilla for Her crinoline bewitches men along The street. They feel their semen soar Among their ribs. They hear her silent song Commencing from her masklike face that turns To left and right but looks at none of...