by phillipw | Mar 3, 2020 | CH, MY, ST
Broadmindedness Touching Electric Fences He thought himself a mystic, though I don’t Believe he knew strict meanings for that word. He had these fuzzy notions: he was wont To stretch and blend. His holiness was blurred. B’hai was far too cut and dried for him, I’m...
by phillipw | Mar 1, 2020 | BR, FA, JO, KE, ST
The Hard Truth: Keats The myth rides gently on that wasting death. Consumption weakened him as if a spell Were cast by Tories hating lines with breath For weaker ones among us. He was well In brain and soul, this little giant filled With all nobilities, this...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2020 | AS, NE, ST, SU
Thorn- Żytkow The one who is the heavy star inside Gives gravity to hold together red Intensity. His presence is implied Because the more amorphous one was fed By greed that made the weighty globe suck in The essence of the one in orbit with Him,...
by phillipw | Feb 24, 2020 | CH, ST
Tea and Lack of Sympathy I took a sip of Earl Grey. I took A step and death came back. The thought of you Produced a fishhook in my tongue. I shook The silver free. It helped that you loved blue Surroundings for those pupils in the eyes Of women, of the ones...
by phillipw | Feb 23, 2020 | LO, ST, Uncategorized
Love is not a Weekend of Tourism Looking at Statues in Paris This love is like a marble statue in Warm standing form. Ferrara marble carved In noontime, and as free from dark stained sin As if the shadows with it have been starved Of wickedness, presents its...
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2020 | CH, ST
Numb Agony No burial happened. You are gone, Though. I have now forgotten you except When circumstance coerces. A black swan Comes floating charred from Purgatory, swept Up mercilessly by a memory Long suppressed, until a casual chance Aroma...
