by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AR, BO, HA, UN
Hairy Happiness The woman watches him. He’s at the sink Inside their hotel room. She notes his arms And shoulders most. She thinks of manly stink In black-haired armpits, glossy in the harms They do to heart and guts as she succumbs. He’s washing them with water...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, MA
Playalinda The honey light of Florida I see In you, the orange-blossom nectar turned To amber. Frenzied buzz and frenzied bee Produce a beauty like your own. We yearned For it for decades. Now it comes in you. The gold of hair against the suntanned...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | PA
Passionless Cut The bitterest things are clear. I can see right Through you. The empty bed is just as clear As you are. Cyanide is pure and white, More pure than bed sheets, even empty sheer Ones, those unstained by absence. Stains are what You have not left in...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AD, MA, SE
Médecins Sans Frontières …. Now even doctors for a charity Must be sexed up. They go to help in war Zones, in the broken bone severity Of mass catastrophe, but requests for Donations now require the sex appeal That permeates our whole society. The patient lifts...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | BO, DR, JO, LA, PA, PH, WE, WH, WI
Recurring, Not Forgotten Florida Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The childhood cosmos that returns in dreams Is full of butter suns, smooth, yellow, bright. The light is not like melting candy creams...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AN, BE, DA, IN, KI, UZ
God Hardened the Heart of Pharaoh Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The goodness of their God in which He hid The death of men awaits believers. They Will still believe. Their doubt has truly slid To...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | BO, CY, GA, Ho, JE, LO, SY
How the Cypress Came to Be Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Sylvanus loved the boy and gave a gift To Cyparissus, gave the boy a doe. He doted on it. Then the truest shift Occurred. Sylvanus killed it...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AN, MI, NE, PO
Helmeted Brain and Tectonic Plates Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Athena and Poseidon do not meet inside My mind and doubtless not inside my heart. They face each other off: she virgin bride Of...
