by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | CH, ST
Blood’s Bitonality I know that you are heartbeats at my core But more than that my feelings are impure. Are you the syncopation in the score My veins are writing, or are you the cure For music’s failure? Are you maybe meant As perfect rhythm and this harmony...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | AC, FR, MO
Achilles Named Prophetically One writer has proposed his name must mean The “lipless” one. How strange. Or is that weird? Despite Homeric speeches there’s not been A record of his words. His nascent beard Is what we can infer beneath his nose. The rest is...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | GA, PA
The Second Coming Perversions like when violence becomes Male bravery are worst. When honor slides To murder beaten into shape by drums, Then whitest principle on horseback rides Across the Muslim children in a ward. The Holocaust stalks from the Temple Mount And...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | BR, WH
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | AL
Thucydides: “Because of the Human Thing” We forecast both the worst and best because Of the human thing settled in the crux. Set there like some sapphire to master laws This thing assures the rigid rule of flux Or many faceted uncertainty. This gemstone...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | RI, VE
If Only Someone Had Sent Verlaine Arthur’s High School Report The perfect monster that he grew to be Attained its zenith lacking moons and stars In London. He went on a hateful spree, Campaigning there to gouge his man with scars External and internal, both in...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | AU, CO, PA, SI, SY
Burdens of Light The silences of country life are more Like shades than sounds. So quiet that they seem Like pastel tints in watercolors or The light beneath acanthus leaves we dream. Those silences are more like mist at dawn Above a pond than like a lack...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | DR
Resolution of Daydreams This year I must resolve to disregard To Do lists and the Devil. I’ll make peace With them. They’ve both tattooed me or have scarred My saffron meadows. They both blockade Greece And blue struck sunlight from a templed isle. They hate...
