by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | HE
A Reader Studying Ancient Law A bit too handsome, yes, but in a square Way, like Clark Kent , you know? He even sports The horn-rimmed glasses and the thick dark hair, But something’s not quite right with his nose. Warts? No! Not that bad, more like an onion’s...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | AE, ES, PR
A Hoodie in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room? A cruel face. Who’d think a blond moustache Could looks so fierce? A snub or pug nose that Would look cute somewhere else cuts a gash There, sticking out like the snout of a bat Surrealistically hung, suspended...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | CH, DE
There’s No Business Like Showbusiness: Coolidge Revised America’s business isn’t business, Not in the country’s declining century. The nation now wallows in Gee Whizzness Over violent films, David Lynchery, And all that...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | BR
Renoir Lips The Renoir lips and voltage eyes of blue, The shock of Tintoretto hair, two-toned In depths of blond and old-gold hue (As subtle as a shadowed Rembrandt, honed With strokes of perfect oils) define the head. The HD download lashes long and...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | LO, RE
Hollywood vs. Us It is as if the movies were more real Than our own lives and loves might ever be— Ever. It isn’t right if we don’t feel It cinematically, if we don’t see It fraught in DVDs. A passion known In Queens or Slough, a paltry murder in Some...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | LO
Two Emperors in One We gave each other new identities As ghosts might when transfused with lovers’ blood. Where once we had been rootless, leafless trees, Limbs bloom. Red cherry comes from urgent bud. Where once we looked out from two far extremes, With...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | CR
No Xi’an Here Face leaning forward, slightly lowered, he Has dignity, an Oriental kind, The way the eye is held ceramically When looking at a Chinese vase in bind Of glaze and beauty. This richest skin Of mellowing vellum colors, but still strong As handmade...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2019 | CH, RE
Patisserie Christianity Patisserie-like Christianity Is what I love the most. Why bother with The rules and burdens, the inanity Of long traditions and the heavy myth When you can have incrusted beauty, not Incrusted doctrine? Start out with a blue Dome. ...
