by phillipw | Mar 16, 2020 | LO, SE
Slickened Interior like Patent Lust You’ve become a leather outfit just for me, But not a black one. You are supple, brown, And warm. I bend the elbow and the knee, Then feel that sturdy thigh…and touch this frown Of leather at the armpit, creases that Stretch...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | SE
Vintage ’69 The best of wines is happiness. Its gold Is richer than a champagne tone. Its red Licks rich like burgundy made old In blonde wood vats. My happiness in bed Continues long, like vintages that grow More potent and more subtle in their taste. My...
by phillipw | Mar 3, 2020 | KI, LO, RO, SE
Abundance The gentleness of lips contemplating A kiss, or speaking, calls up fullness through The heart or thought. The lips give due weighting To passion in the chest, in senses true To honesty, or mysteries unknown But felt. The softness of the mouth...
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...
