by phillipw | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Holy Orders I have a cool stone convent set inside My mind. The only nun is me. I move From cell to cell like flotsam on a tide Whenever inspiration flows. I prove The worth of this sensation or that thought By testing it with images and lines. The...
by phillipw | Jan 23, 2020 | TH, Uncategorized
The God of Gods The god of gods appeared on earth today. He settled on a springtime tree—a crown Of whitest pink and petals came straight down From heaven. There they murmured silent whims Of glories that no mortal eye has seen. They chanted without sound...
by phillipw | Jan 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ageing Is that resemblance which the camera took The truth? Is that reflection in the glass Me? I believe it can’t be. I don’t look Like some old ugly man lacking class Completely, do I? I suspect a plot. I smell an islamist terrorist cell. It’s...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Seance from Vellum “When we listen to the verse phrases and whole poems that have made that hard journey through time, space and language, … we are enthralled as much by what we cannot know as by what we hear.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets We...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Rimbaud & Swinburne One wonders if the fog outside had made Its way inside the reading room where two Bent poets sat, one who’d employed a blade Of poesie across Paul’s paps; one who Composed rhymed couplets focusing upon The teeth of Sappho...
by phillipw | Jan 8, 2020 | Uncategorized, VE
La serenissima A city is presided over by The moon in half its glory, and the scars And blemishes revealed beneath bright Mars Along the Grand Canal are quite as high In number as the craters up above— Serene half disc, the surfaces below, A twinning of...
