by phillipw | Nov 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
No Conversion Therapy His eyes hold blacks that Jesus wished to be When he loomed next to Lucifer, the blacks That oceans hold beneath each night-time sea, Not surfaces but depths that only lax Hearts know. His eyes hold feelings blacker than Unfallen angels...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2024 | AB, LO, RO, SE, YA
Lush Blackness Outside and Inside “with false compare” ~ Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 The eyes wait black, the eyebrows, too. The hair On top waves black, thick black. These blacks all teach That black is lovelier than yellow. Swear By black since it is...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2024 | LO, PA, RO
Roberto Far, far in Costa Rica, far away My friend reads sonnets/villanelles by me. He reads so closely what these poems say That, apprehending, he reveals that he Reads deeply like a CT scan, or like An X-ray — or electron microscopes. If lines...
by phillipw | Nov 21, 2024 | EP, LY, PO, SH, SO
Less is More: A Sonnet Sequence about Profoundly Paunchy Poetry as Opposed to Perfect Poetry Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Flower in the Crannied Wall” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2024 | DI, EM, GL, IN, SP
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem the music of the spheres (160) ‘The Last Transit of Venus’ for Glass Armonica – YouTube If I could fall forever through a space We can’t imagine,...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Wombless Vacuum Lacuna Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It seems I yell out nothings, nothings, not One thing the universe desires. My clouds Are chocked with ambiguities, more clot Than what most...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Cat Lustre How long does glow upon a black cat’s fur Last once his steps are gone? He disappears In night without a moon. Does gloss turn blur, Or worse? If fur goes where there are no spheres, Does it then sublimate to nothing through...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
All-embracing Ideas that come from wombs which give them ears Because these thoughts have listened well before They speak, these hear the screaming in your tears Before you feel them. If ideas have more Than auricle and cartilage, the nerves...
