by phillipw | Sep 1, 2019 | SE
Liquid Resistance Enfolding skin that covers muscles, flesh, Makes paradox of softness, firmness in My arms, themselves a melting strength. We mesh Where holiness combines with soul of sin Or with an element that cannot stain, That cannot be improved. We call it...
by phillipw | Aug 20, 2019 | SE
A Smart Ass They throttled me and threw me on the bed, Then peeled my shirt off, yanked away my pants And pulled my Y-fronts past my feet. No shred Of me was covered when they’d finished. Chants Began at once. “RED BELLY!” shouted all The boys,...
by phillipw | Aug 9, 2019 | SE
Medical Technology Advances The time will come when someone will invent A scanner for the human heart. Clear views Resulting in a pure astonishment Will force high-minded lovers to refuse The findings. Expectations will be scrubbed. For those who thought that simple...
by phillipw | Jul 12, 2019 | SE
How to Take Care of Yourself: a Stylites Approach One of the Stoics said, “It is in constantly paying attention to oneself that one assures one’s salvation.” From Socrates onwards, maybe before, Right down to Kant, and Sartre, Marx and Freud, Philosophers and...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2019 | LO, RO, SE
Heavenly Bodies: We Made Night & Slept Separated After All The night we made was everything but dark. I put my surging galaxies inside You. Both of us thought twilight was too stark So we created moons — moons growing wide. A full moon that we made was not...
