by phillipw | Sep 20, 2018 | S
Shàn in Abundance I know a woman in Beijing who cares. She cares for cats. She rescues them the way The Buddha might. She takes them in and shares Her tiny income with them. People flay And eat them in the south of China. She Protects abandoned cats. When I...
by phillipw | Sep 5, 2018 | Z
Zero Truth from Ancient India or the Olmecs It wasn’t an Islamic scholar who Formulated that non-number zero. No matter how much Muslims might want to Deny that fact, the actual hero, An ancient, not even slightly linked with The Arab world, did it. The simple fact...
by phillipw | Aug 7, 2018 | A
A & P My mother took me to the A & P Quite often, in the 50s, and back then That market and the little town were key To my whole view, as Proust’s lost madeleine Became for him. The color of that cake Was like the dark orange smell of...
by phillipw | Aug 2, 2018 | AE, AN, ES, TH, WA
An Aesthetic Rule for Life Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A wasp just landed on my hand. It moved About a while and flew away. A breeze So tiny I could barely feel it proved The threat was gone. My...
by phillipw | Aug 2, 2018 | A, CH, FR, GA, RO, UN
α — The first letter of the Greek alphabet “And all the sons of God shouted for joy” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The memory of you rinses even light. Though clouds today add gray to sky...
