by phillipw | Dec 11, 2019 | AT
Obscuring Dust If only Nagasaki had produced A flimsy beauty quite as spirit-like As this released by fatality, loosed By unexpected cataclysm, a spike Of unimaginable death, a blast Like Zeta Ophiuchi’s Siamese Twin. Gorgeousness diaphanous and...
by phillipw | Dec 11, 2019 | DI, GO
Leviticus 11:19 I’m really tempted–ain’t you?–to eat bats. I mean, they’d be so succulent with all Those bugs they’ve munched, more delicate than rats On palate, right? Yep. Those fly-flavored, small Bones inside...
by phillipw | Dec 11, 2019 | TR
Window Dressing Some sofa Christians think the Trinity Is an old upholstering firm. The father, The sleeping partner in infinity, Has pretty much retired. He would rather Forget that butcher shop which was his past And dream away in silk senility, Abandon...
by phillipw | Dec 11, 2019 | GO
Why He Can Intervene Did God extend Himself, . . . stretch . . . to create The universe? Since He was everywhere Throughout the endless vacuum sans date Defined by blackest agate depths of space, He actually elected to withdraw His nth infinitude and folded up...
by phillipw | Dec 11, 2019 | SE
Oracles Some trees stand like a trance, so self-possessed It seems a sacrilege to clutter their Immense tranquility with hungry nest Or whispered roots like tangled dreams or hair. These trees, like pregnant women, dazzle facts. These limbs...
by phillipw | Dec 11, 2019 | CR, LO, RO
Cremation Our future ashes will well symbolize The waste heap we have made of myths we shared; And yet, though cinders say that flames have flared, Our past doomed heat—with all which that implies. Our embers will be cold, and represent The...
by phillipw | Dec 11, 2019 | UN
Mutant My heart has now evolved a beak, but not For melody or kisses. In a shell This mouth has formed that you and fate forgot To show how organs gnaw escape from hell. My heart has engineered itself a new Integument, but not a brilliant case As...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2019 | RO
Swallowing We feel as if we’ve swallowed jewels, when we Encounter love. The emeralds go straight Up to the mind, inducing it to see Forever-spreading rivers in full spate. A ruby goes, mainlining, to our hearts And turns them into shining,...
