by phillipw | Mar 16, 2020 | AP, DU, JO
Mellow Voiced like Perfection I remember well the first day that we Met. It was Sabbath yellow, white and blue, A summer’s afternoon of sanctity Because of God—and then because of you, Your sister and your parents. Hours of sun And brightness in the sky, a holy day...
by phillipw | Mar 16, 2020 | AB
Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of, Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, Viscount of Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves, and Kellie He looks so handsome in the portrait by Sir Tomas Lawrence (1828) Perhaps you might say pretty to the eye. From early on he...
by phillipw | Mar 16, 2020 | LO, SE
Slickened Interior like Patent Lust You’ve become a leather outfit just for me, But not a black one. You are supple, brown, And warm. I bend the elbow and the knee, Then feel that sturdy thigh…and touch this frown Of leather at the armpit, creases that Stretch...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | AN, MO
Assaulting the Backbone of Beauty The deliberate program, then, of a “break” with the past or tradition seems to me to be a sentimental fallacy. ~ Hart Crane Pathetic prophet Crane did not foresee de Kooning or that Jackson Pollock reek On canvass. Crane’s...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, MA
Troy in New Orleans, Manhattan, or London So I found “Helen” sitting in a streetcar; the Dionysian revels of her court were transferred to a Metropolitan roof garden with a jazz orchestra;and the katharsis of the fall of Troy I saw approximated in the recent World...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | BE
Monarch on the Cushions of his Throne He has a rattan halo over him. He lies on velvet and embroidery. The rattan is a woven saint-like rim Come down as if by heavenly decree To change the world forever for the best. The velvet on his cushion is a red Of royalty...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
A Sonnet Crane’s indebtedness to the discourses of modernism … includes subjects as well as styles: … for instance… his linguistic density, which is his verbal equivalent of montage or cubist effect “The Homosexual...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2020 | DI, WA
Royal Reveries I never daydreamed I would be like Di, Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, Or live to be The Queen, or even try To be unhappy with love that impales A woman’s guts with unfaithfulness. (See The Husband Prince’s.) Overhearing on The...
