by phillipw | Dec 14, 2025 | CA, DI, GA, GO, ST, WA, WH
Only a God Would Think of Gilding a Cavern Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Divine I am, inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from” ~ Walt Whitman “Divine I...
by phillipw | Nov 25, 2025 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
48 53 58 63…Februaries Schisms as Chasms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The five-year gap between the times that you And I were born, our ages (ever spread) Will never be erased until the skew Of death...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2025 | FI, NE, PO, ST
“To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”: My Hauling Work Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if you pull upon a net And bring up starfish—and . . . with them the stars, The Pleiades, the seven stars...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | CH, GA, JI, KI, KY, RO, SC, SE, ST, UN, Uncategorized
G., C., A., and G. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He has an echo bone inside his chest. It sends its slight reverberations when His heart remembers, with a slight arrest Of breathing, kisses in...
by phillipw | Sep 16, 2025 | AC, CH, RE, SE, ST, Uncategorized
C.R.S., P.W.W., Continuation of Death Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His tree is here. His tree is here. Long years Before we met, the redwood soared above Our heights, combined, and now long years,...
by phillipw | Sep 10, 2025 | PA, PH, ST
Self Fraud Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Stoics, who believed in logic yet Believed in fate, were stupid, plainly. Fate Cannot be proved by logic. They could sweat Forever in...