by phillipw | Aug 29, 2020 | AT, RE, UN
Cleaving Like iron filings you were trapped against My heart. It drew you to its outer flesh And tried to suck you inward. You were fenced: Your dark male filings harshly made a mesh, A metal net to hold off my desire. It turns out softened, hardened...
by phillipw | Jul 20, 2020 | AL, FR, SA, TH, UN
Thucydides: Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Because of the Human Thing” We forecast both the worst and best because The human thing is settled in the crux. Set there like...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2020 | UN
Gravity: the Greeks and the Old Testament How Hitler-like and heavy is the past, How wonderful and marble-like its weight Upon our brains and guts. The Greeks loom vast; The Hebrews, too. Their fires in myth frustrate. We can’t escape to newness. We are crushed...
by phillipw | May 21, 2020 | BR, UN, WE
Sterile I throw my rice on you, small handfuls of White wishes with husks rubbed off. Grains catch there In your hair, a few, the ones that know love And its meaninglessness. That’s what they share With God, that clinging whiteness and a...
by phillipw | May 21, 2020 | CH, ST, UN
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 | May 20, 2020 | AR, DI, GO, PR, UN
Imagine How Much Like a Man’s Shaved Armpit Allah Would be without Mohammad Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem No matter who the god is, he needs men To help. He needs the prophets to deploy Their fiery...
