by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | AN, CL, PO, TR
Once was Evil Enough The ancient tragedies of Athens played Upon that stage just once and then were rolled Around themselves in paper. They had made Impressions strong enough and so were scrolled Up, waiting … silently … for who knows what? For paper...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | DO, ME, TR
Trump and Melania, Liberace and Scott Thorson,Verlaine and Rimbaud … the List Goes On and On When men grow old, they suddenly can still Be caught up by cyclones whirling in their veins. The younger winds around them will not thrill To white-haired waterspouts. ...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | BL, BR, CH, DE, ST, TH, TR, Uncategorized, VI
Inhalers Created for Chuck one day before the anniversary of his birth. “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 searched through the...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | PU, SA, SI, ST, TR
The Truth Exposed Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “…in Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell, §178; after he has described the garments of the angels, some of which glow with flame, some of which...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | TR
RachelROBERT The ancient myths about strange beasts composed Of body parts from different creatures fill Some need inside the psyche. Boys enclosed Inside a female body ache until They realize the truth about their sex. The suffering starts as if it’s...
by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | CL, FO, PO, TR
Ars Poetica “The word ‘classic’ itself . . . derives from the Latin word classicus which referred to recruits of the ‘first class’, the heavy infantry in the Roman army. The ‘classical’, then, is ‘first class’, though it is no longer heavily armoured.” ~...
