by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | DI, PI
It’s not Much of a Stretch to Say Annie Dillard Reveals that Life = Death Who doesn’t have a fantasy that’s dark? It comes up from the undergrowth like slime Or other fungi. It’s the basic quark That psyches stretch out from. It bides its time. Some night it...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | MA
All Too Short a Date The tree began its disappearing act Late yesterday. Some petals, fluttering, fell Unnoticed. Beauty’s zenith now has slacked Off slightly. Pinky whiteness’s full swell Has slumped away in springtime’s breathing night, And now that daytime’s...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Tree of Knowledge of Good in Everything I never visited the land of Make Believe with him, that country where the trees Are arboretum rows without a snake. That forest would have been a land of ease Exotic with philosophy’s warm fogs That settle on a luxury of...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | CH, ST
Spring Remembers Him The garden border just outside my door Fills up with verve and beauty at this time. Those feathered pinks of peonies galore Are weighted down this morning at the prime Of April, nearly May. Bright weight of rain Embraces petals in its drops and...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | BU, Uncategorized
Helen Miller’s Little Brother The bullies all around him must have seemed Like combine harvesters to someone wee Like autumn blossoms when the bastards teamed Up. Gary, like a sweet weed in the scree Beneath a bing, somehow survived and found His way to my protection...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | VE
The Friend Who was Wise to Escape Early into Prussian Strength “ephebic body’s exquisite proportions” ~ Verlaine commenting on his long dead Lucien Viotti ….. Verlaine was like a bomb who injured those Around him, starting with the one who...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2019 | IS
Allah’s Conquering, Heroic, and Hallowed Religion He proves that Sacred Islam must exult. The One True God has destined it to gloat In triumph over weaker faiths. Its cult Is Holy Strength. If it must cut the throat Of infidel and sacrilege, its boasts...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2019 | CO
The Boxing Ring in the Grand Ole Opry Just how would you react if someone told You some unbearable new truth about Your mother, that she dreamed of that fool’s gold, Yep, country western stardom? Far too stout To be a stellar triumph in that field Or any...
