by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | NE
I Make Another World I make another world just for us. I start to make it now, because of you, Because you’ve made the world a Hesperus, A dooming star, and so we need a new Edenic place to make our love. No tree Is veiled with sly temptation or with threat...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | LO, RO
I Want to Take You I want to lift you back before the start Of everything. I want to knock you back Before God spoke, before there was a heart, To that eternity when light was slack And waited breathlessly like Adam in The dust. I want to take you back before...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | ST, UN
Straight The look on my young face did not make you Unbutton shirt or heart. N o whisper came From you, not even once, though once we two Kissed. Kissing only made a distant frame Around your ...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | IN, ME
The Internal Space Station You’ve seen those places advertising what They call “Self-storage” lockers. Well, I’ve had One over sixty years. It’s not a hut On our back green. It doesn’t have a pad- Lock, isn’t just a cubicle inside A...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | AS, ST
The Life of Stars Stars lives are always long, slow deaths. They die And live by burning. Furnace-like, their cores Consist of catastrophic heat. They fry The elements just like inquisitions Turned crazies into saints. Crushed hydrogen Produces helium. ...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | AS, AS, GO
I John 1:5 A damask tablecloth embraced by light From candelabra, and a Christmas tree Awake with twinkling, and Diwali night Are tempting us to think that light means glee. John’s God is light but too much brilliance blights: When Moses climbed the...
by phillipw | Jan 5, 2020 | PO, WR
For the Aegenitan Lad Who Won the Pankration “From every ship and boat, my song” ~ Pindar, Nemean Ode 5 We wonder if some ancient sailors sang The lines of Pindar as they crossed the seas Below their masts and not in seamen’s slang. They chanted lines from odes, or...
by phillipw | Jan 5, 2020 | PH
…..They’re Everywhere They’re everywhere: in front of holy sites Like altars in cathedrals, or in front Of foreign monuments, the flashing lights Of Nikons, especially an affront When notices in several tongues fixed on The wall forbid the use of...
