by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Some Myths Come Up Inside Us 0\s Some myths come up inside us with the force Of memory. I wake to find that I Have been gnawing on the flesh of a Norse God; just a dream, except that there’s the dye Of truth in it because the meat was Charles My friend. That...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Time Might not Go Forever 0 Time might not go forever but it’s long Enough to grow quite thin. That’s why we’ve thought Up things like God, immortal life, and song Of angels praising Him from the year dot– If His creation of them was the...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | FA
You Stare at Them, Can’t Help It 0 You stare at them, can’t help it, as they stalk Along the catwalk or they stare at you From glossy magazines. Perhaps you gawk At them as if your hungry look could hew A way to beauty in their beds with them Where you...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Linda Means . . . 0 The boy whose heart replaced his tongue sat down Beside the girl in deepest petticoats That whispered like the whitest waves. The crown Of that poor male’s fraught day, they were the boats That carried off his thinking to a place So...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Each Moves inside her Veil Each moves inside her veil and longer robe As if protected from the fact of life, But crude and commonplace conditions probe Their would be certainties. The truth is rife With complications. Husbands beat their wives When robes and veils...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Aggressive Music Fills the Room 0 Aggressive music fills the room until It can’t hold any more. The throat is black And full of anger we call love. The spill Of it disturbs the tables. Food goes slack Because of onslaught from her song. The poise Of appetite...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Cosmic Exit to a Parallel Universe 0 Yes, reading books is clearly the best way To keep from being forced to lead your life. It’s far, far better than crime films or, say, The writing of a poem. Life is rife With true experience or, rather, Truth Experience,...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Gray Ghosts who Know their Ways 0 Gray ghosts who know their ways around the world Of graves are pretty dapper guys. They’re dressed In silvers, silks, and platinum that’s swirled Dior-like, draped in Galliano best, And wearing Prada sunspecs trailing...
