by phillipw | Dec 27, 2020 | RA, SE
Enthralling Hair His lust goes blunt and sharp at once. It shoves Itself like cudgel and like blade. The club Is made of iron that feels like rusty gloves Created to assault for utmost drub Of body parts. Deep bruising is its goal. An urgency for trauma...
by phillipw | Dec 27, 2020 | CH, DI, FR, GA, Ho, LO, MA, SP, WA
When Washington Created Lasting Love on M Street, Georgetown Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You sum up everything I lost, An April made unending since we shared The cherry blossoms as in Pentecost,...
by phillipw | Dec 27, 2020 | AE, DE, GR, TH
The Darkened Sea Imagine, then, that salt waves draw the soul Of hyacinths, their purple fragrance down, The fragrance of high lilacs from rock knoll, And cliff, and pathway of an island’s crown To blue Aegean stretches. Purple falls To salt and blue. The...
by phillipw | Dec 27, 2020 | KA, LI, NA, RE, VE
Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima The past is nuclear, exploding in A present moment boring as a brown Field waiting for some turnip seeds. The skin Of now is guiltless, threatless till the frown Of yesterday’s wide sins rips up the fleece. The grimace is electric in...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2020 | LA, SE, TR
Karen Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem She had a laugh composed of dusky fat. It seemed to earn its way through twilight sound. The laugh was like a husky playful brat Controlling sex...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2020 | FA, HU, MO, PO, WO
Woman You slip away in poems that you wrote, In songs composed, in paintings painted by Your lust and fingers. You turn out the vote For candidate and then learn just how sly He was, or muster funding for the cause— And win—but then the circumstances...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2020 | ME, TH
Psychotherapy Prognosis Your history can’t be cured. It only goes To something like remission lacking hope. Your past remains. Its presence, fungal, grows In X-rays probing memories. You can cope If you are drugged enough with commonplace Forgetfulness and don’t...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2020 | BO, BR, CO, DR, EX, GE, IO, JU, VU
Victors in Dream Geography Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We want to conquer dreamers’ landscapes, sweep Through them triumphantly, explore each dream And make it ours. We want to fathom deep...
