by phillipw | Nov 15, 2019 | SO
Alpha If glass contains a sound, we cannot hear It. We can cause a sound from it by force But torture chambers manage only queer Sounds, agonies, from humans, so of course The sounds we cause by breaking glass or with A wetted finger on a rim...
by phillipw | Nov 4, 2019 | SO
Epitaph on Epicurus’s Epiphenomenon: Wishful Non-Thinking The soul, if it exists at all, consists Of stuff we cannot register with tools Or natural senses. If the mind resists The logic of thin physics, then new rules Must be developed, like a child who...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | SO
Calm Down, Gautama: the Escape is Eternal I fabricate myself a Soul. It needs Much less than what religions would impose. This Soul of mine is limited. It heeds My own creation, not the rows and rows Of rules that random deities require. Instead it recognizes...
by phillipw | Sep 17, 2019 | GO, HE, SO
Everlasting Godfire I wish that God had killed the angels whom He sent to Sodom and Gomorrah, not The men–the husbands, fathers, sons in bloom Of youthful beauty, bachelors with hot Prospects–and not the women, children, mules, And donkeys, braying in the...
by phillipw | Sep 12, 2019 | SO
Preserved Passionate Regret in Zoar: Eve Purified How beautiful the angels are is shown By Lot’s wife. She had reached the safety of The town of Zoar. Angels then had flown Away to angel places, realms of love, When God rained down the brimstone, fire, and death...
by phillipw | Sep 11, 2019 | SO
Anticipation of the Angels Anticipation of the angels in Our lives is like transparent gold. We seek The glow of beauty and the flame of sin With them, a flame as powerful and weak As that from candles. We desire yellow Heat beaming from angelic shapes, but blue...
