by phillipw | Feb 25, 2020 | JO, KE, SE
Abandoned by All but Two: Joseph Severn & Immortality The man who sailed to Italy with Keats Was chosen just because he was the one Available. Deaf circumstance defeats Our friends. Concerns about the family stun Some men who otherwise might offer us Their...
by phillipw | Feb 18, 2020 | DE, SE
Sex and Death Can ghosts come back to life enough to sweat? If so, what kind of perspiration could Express itself on phantom skin? Cold, wet, And smell-less, meaningless as balsa wood Their armpit tufts would feel less clammy than Flesh kissed on rigor...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2020 | LA, SE
Revelation 12:5 “the snows of yesteryear” Desires denied fill time like Arctic waste, Antarctic nights. Since in eternity These passion are abandoned, they stay chaste Forever. Virginal alternity To life, they lie in deep-freeze space, As...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2020 | JO, KE, SE
The Final Leg of John Keats’ Journey to Death [John Keats, in case you didn’t know already, died of TB when he was very young. In a desperate attempt to save his life, his friends subscribed money to send him to live in Italy. This ploy failed and he died...
by phillipw | Feb 10, 2020 | MA, SE
Hercules Had a Cudgel For men it’s violence and sex. For them The love comes accidentally at best. They want to lift up Aphrodite’s hem And rape what she has never quite suppressed There, furred between her thighs, but first they must Fulfill the need to...
by phillipw | Jan 25, 2020 | SE, SU
Prince of Silence “FIREBALL HORROR AT THE PALACE” ~ London Evening Standard, p. 1, February 9, 2016 He didn’t leave a note. He didn’t tell A soul. No whisper even from his death Was given as he left his private hell. The only message was the whooshing...
