by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | ST
Broadmindness 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...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | CH, ST
An Agonizing Therapy Your death hurts just a little now, a jot Among the tittles in the books That fill the British Library and not Enough for life to notice in the nooks And crannies of the outward blasting bang That science tells us is our space. Your end Came...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | CH, ST
Dessication: A Final Farewell I spoke your name this morning, but the air Remained unmoved despite the fact my head Was lying just above your lock of hair. I spoke your name last night while on my bed Where just beneath my pillow I have stored The...
by phillipw | Oct 10, 2019 | DE, MO, ST
How to Paint at Midnight in the Chest and Torso When my internal organs conjure you, They call the lake of lakes to be the greens You caused, and seas of oceans for the blue My memories use to paint rib walls with scenes. And these are just the bordering waters...
by phillipw | Oct 8, 2019 | CH, LO, ST
The Vivid Building Charles Never Saw The church that had a meaning now is lost In death. That strongly blue and gold-starred dome, Elaborately slated and gold-crossed, Says nothing about my man’s final home, His ashes in a garden dug in north...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | PA, ST
What’s the Good of Good? “Stylops parasitize divers other insects such as leaf hoppers, ants, bees, and wasps. The female spend her entire life inside the body of her host, with only the tip of her bean- shaped body protruding. She is a formless lump, having...