by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | DO, TR
Onward, Forward, Shout Aloud Hosanna Forget the Holy of the Holies now. Think “Nastiness of Nasties” at the top. He’s picked the vilest ones to be the prow Of Good Yacht Nastiness, to be the crop Of all the rottenest of fruit to serve Us. Being vile and vile he has...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | DO, TR
Wearing a Triple Crown above America A menace rises like a tidal wave, A monster with the skin, blond hair and scales Of humanoid dragons from a cave Beneath the Dead Sea’s crust. Decency pales To superficiality of greed With gilt attempting to prevent our eyes From...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | BE, MA
The British Library Rare Books and Music Reading Room; Why Go Search for Black Diamonds in Deepest Mines, Far, Far Away? I like the way his shoulders hunch in curve And swell when he is sitting calm in thought, But even more I love the darkened swerve Of almost...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | PO
Poets and the Various Piracies of Life All poets should be saved by dolphins, all, And not just Arion. We each require A varying salvation. Very small John Keats would need the clicking, squeaking choir To focus healing bursts and pulses on His shreds of lungs there...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | CH, ST
Fading Phase, Moon Skeleton You now have been diminished too much less Than ghost or bone. You float up in the sky Of evening, there more like a moveless tress Of skeleton, a haint in twilight, dry Among the evening stars. A fragment of The lunar sphere, a little...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | DO, TR
The Truth and Nothing but the Truth, God Help Us All “The lover of money is the root of tall evil.” ~ Jesus Christ The so-called President, Donald J. Dump- On-Everyone (everyone that is but The butt himself of course), was once the chump Who founded Trump...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | SE
Vintage ’69 The best of wines is happiness. Its gold Is richer than a champagne tone. Its red Licks rich like burgundy made old In blonde wood vats. My happiness in bed Continues long, like vintages that grow More potent and more subtle in their taste. My...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | IN, WE
A Trillion Gigabytes of Verity Tonight the news is worried that a search On Google hints that being gay is wrong— A sinful illness. The Web’s a broad church And if you key in “holocaust,” the strong Impression is that lots of people think That it’s a fiction, hoax,...
