by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | FR, MA
Best at a Distance Some say that friendship’s realm is nowhere but Nostalgia. Love of man for man exists In regions where the friend is absent, shut Out, exiled, say, or better dead, subsists On mourning, loss, and echoes. Because if He is actually in the...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | FR, MO
Set Him as a Seal “I give myself more to my friend than draw Him to me”—so says old Montaigne, but long Years after Étienne had died. The flaw Is pretty obvious, right? “Love is strong As death,” another wise man’s song insists, But are we all convinced? ...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | AU
A Single Tree A single tree among the untouched green Of others sacrifices arms of leaves; A crucifixion set in autumn’s scene Conflated with the fire of yellow, cleaves To God-like death in slow motion. A golden cross, as high as resurrection,...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | LO, ST
All the Joy that was Mine A part of me (my soul? my heart?) unfurls As if it were a rainbow sent out through A flame, or, opened, by his head of curls, A fan of ivory and silk, gems (blue, Set sapphires, topaz, opals) spreads new life Throughout expanding ribcage here...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | BE
A Trio of Sonnets–Rare Books and Music The way the wool is bunched in darker folds Of green against the lighter verdant wool Enunciates his hiding bulge and scolds The eye to stare enraptured at the full Imperial swelling of the shoulder where Secreted...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | Ho, TR
The Past Has Ceased: Hollywood vs. the Truth The past has ceased, unless the lens Of Hollywood decides to resurrect Some part of it, though even then the Whens And Wherefores are distorted, the correct Is sacrificed for thrills. Who cares about The facts when tears...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | AS, Uncategorized
The Earth and Her Moon Photographed From the Oval Orbit of Mercury They spin, the greater and the lesser one — Sweep through the black. Green and blue disappear, Reflecting only whiteness from the sun. They both seem honest, know no sin or fear....
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | AE, BE, ES, UG
Grimm Truth in the British Library Rare Books and Music Reading Room Lots of us are just not beautiful. Yeah? Perhaps not ugly, no, but pretty plain. (Forgive the big-nosed paradox.) Not BLEH, But not so gorgeous that it causes pain. The lip as thin as primness or...
