by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | HE, WH, WO
Helen Remembers Woodrow as a Young Man Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Woodrow in overalls in a colorized photo a few years before Helen met him. She sees him standing on the wooden porch On Cape...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | CA, WH, WO
1920s Earthbound Boyhood without Apollo Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The people with their gilt have left their house With boards across the doors. The windows, too, Are barred, but still the boy, a...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | DA, DO, IV, JA, WH, WO
The Orange Grove Behind Our House Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A grove can take us anywhere. The leaves Shine distances: blood’s pirates that we play Are in the Caribbean*. Vision cleaves Us with...
by phillipw | Aug 3, 2026 | FR, PO, WA, WH
“The straightforward pathway had been lost.” ~ Dante Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray.”...
by phillipw | Jun 27, 2026 | EM, HE, TH, WA, WH
Eyes for Seeing The curse, the pang with which they died, Had never passed away; I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor lift them up to pray. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Their eyes still stare through death that you and I Cannot...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | AP, CA, Uncategorized, WH, WO
Quivering Like Cassandra but Between “the salt-estranging sea” and Brine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He did not know it as a boy or teen, Not even in his cosmos known as dreams. He did not know that...
