by phillipw | Aug 7, 2019 | JE, LO, ST
Ghostly Surgery When we are sleeping, both, forever, I Will sift your soul subconsciously. This search Will certainly include past dreams and pry Among your souvenirs. I’ll find the perch Where this and that love rival have been stored. I’ll oust them,...
by phillipw | Aug 7, 2019 | CH, LO, ST
Conversion I swallowed starlight when I saw you first, That night you came in through a holy gate And raised your hands in hallowed greeting, burst With beauty in a fevered Sabbath, straight From lukewarm life including tepid Christ. He was the son behind theology Of...
by phillipw | Aug 1, 2019 | CH, ST
Made Unique by God the Father and Son Almighty: the First Day and the Sixth He had a head so full of dawns that God Must clearly have been there when it was made. Another reason was that he was odd. That also showed divinity had played A kneeling part in his creation...
by phillipw | Jun 11, 2019 | CH, ST
Charles Randall Stanfield: In so Modest a Setting A giant diamond on a slender ring Of chrome is what he was. He showed the flash, Flash, flash of bevels, many, not like cheapo bling, But heaven’s light. The man was like a gash Through breathing in my weekday,...
by phillipw | Jun 3, 2019 | ST
From Moloch’s Lectionary Awakening in the middle of the night I find a message on my phone from you, An email forwarded, an email blight. It says that Matthew, flesh and bone from you, Was not worth making, that the life of him, Your semen and the DNA which made...
by phillipw | May 31, 2019 | ST
Inhalers Created for Chuck one day before the anniversary of his birth. the girl who was no longer blind “When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with the lights in it.” It was for this tree I...
