by phillipw | May 19, 2020 | NE, UN
A Gold-like Necktie from the Metropolitan Museum of Art I’m wearing unicorns around my throat And near my heart. Of course they’re cream-like white, Though on their necks in gold fields where they float Are clasped wide collars of a red not bright As blood but darker,...
by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | BI, CO, CR, UN
Splendor Exploding outwards now, the universe Is ever an expanding tidal wave, A circle of catastrophe, a curse. It is an ever-living deathly grave For all that it gives birth to, hexing life Produced in its calamities. It sears Its breath across...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AR, BO, HA, UN
Hairy Happiness The woman watches him. He’s at the sink Inside their hotel room. She notes his arms And shoulders most. She thinks of manly stink In black-haired armpits, glossy in the harms They do to heart and guts as she succumbs. He’s washing them with water...
by phillipw | Apr 17, 2020 | CO, NE, UN
NecroPhillipa I can’t afford the kind of perjury To make me young and beautiful again In this life: the best of plastic surgery Is well beyond my grasp. Besides the pain Is more than I could bear. Perhaps I could Afford a burial arrangement, though,...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | CH, UN
And Tufted Tail and Swirled Upward Groove in Single Horn I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china. ~ Oscar Wilde I have a perfect little china cup, Just one. Its shape is perfect like the waist Of Scarlett’s dress when she is all cinched...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2020 | LO, RO, UN
Gilt Thin on a Black Lacquer Chinese Screen No dragons hold my love up in their claws For you. My love is not important or White mythical enough for that. No pause Inside the cosmos happens when I pour Devotion out beneath your feet for you To...
