by phillipw | Apr 3, 2019 | ST
I Used to Think Unfailingly of Charles When I Passed that Tree I pass the giant redwood limbs each day Still. Something’s altered. It is not the tree. It’s more I don’t react to it. No sway Disturbs its dignity. A change in me Has made me stop remembering. ...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2019 | LO, RO, SE
Heavenly Bodies: We Made Night & Slept Separated After All The night we made was everything but dark. I put my surging galaxies inside You. Both of us thought twilight was too stark So we created moons — moons growing wide. A full moon that we made was not...
by phillipw | Mar 14, 2019 | RO
I re-arranged my china. England failed While I was doing that. The team was young As we’d been told ad nauseam. They paled To losers, though. I placed old cups among The others on a shelf as England’s team Lost. No, I wasn’t watching England’s game Against...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2019 | PA
We think papyrus was for writing on. This was not always so. The priests wore shoes From it in ancient Egypt. At the dawn Of writing culture, copyists would use Some parchment, vellum, clay, and stone. Some sails And cabling for bridges also came From stripped...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2019 | DI
When Emily abandoned schoolwork, she Assumed the baking in her family home. She turned away from the formality Of thinking of philosophers. Her dome Became the kitchen ceiling. Still, the view Outside that house took in the graveyard stones Of Amherst death. At...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Thomas Wentworth Higginson reported Dickinson’s comments about sweets in a letter to his wife: “‘People must have puddings’ this [was said] very dreamily, as if they were comets—so she makes them” (L342a) http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/book/export/html/44 Once...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2019 | TI
From giant, bulging cylinders the fans Sprayed out the fog to kill mosquitoes. How They acted I don’t know. Cancelled their banns? Abandoned buggy fucking? Stuttered, “Ow!”? I wonder if the city fathers were Opposed to free flight sex on buzzing wings. Were men...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2019 | DI
‘Dickinson was troubled from a young age by the “deepening menace” of death, especially the deaths of those who were close to her. When Sophia Holland, her second cousin and a close friend, grew ill from typhus and died in April 1844, Emily was...
