by phillipw | Mar 6, 2025 | BR, CA, MA, WH
Miracle of Modern Medicine and Demonic Itching It crept along inside her like a long- Lost angel Jesus couldn’t cure. The wretch At worst had withered wings and lost its song. Inside her breast the devil couldn’t stretch And couldn’t fledge its arrows. They could...
by phillipw | Mar 1, 2025 | HE, WH
Loss in the Mental Lottery Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My mother had a stroke before the hours My oldest brother was to wed. This stripped Her brain of language output. Other powers Were...
by phillipw | Feb 28, 2025 | AR, CH, WH
From “Hog Butcher to the World” to the British Library Rare Books and Music Reading Room His father’s father worked where hanging screams Were not allowed. The carcases had had Their windpipes slashed. Warm blood in gasping streams Had fallen past his eyes. ...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2025 | HE, RA, Uncategorized, WH, WO
Healthy Helix Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He thinks that he is not a monster, not His father, not his mother, a bit Too much like both, but too much like a clot Of two good people, sucked...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2025 | EL, WH
God’s Intervention Like a Hurled Rock “the blueness of wounds” Those unbelieving eyes of snow surround Her. Iciness like heat’s waves travels through Her hammered brain cells like the echoed sound Of God’s creation, banging, leaving blue Its bruises in the jelly of...
by phillipw | Dec 8, 2024 | BR, DO, FR, WH
Physics Trounced by 24-carat Gold For Donald who is dead these many nights and days I see that in this photo I am blond But I have never noticed until now That Donald, too, is yellow-haired beyond The age of others who went brown. The wow In this is that while...
