by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | HE, WH, WO
Helen Remembers Woodrow as a Young Man Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Woodrow in overalls in a colorized photo a few years before Helen met him. She sees him standing on the wooden porch On Cape...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | CA, WH, WO
1920s Earthbound Boyhood without Apollo Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The people with their gilt have left their house With boards across the doors. The windows, too, Are barred, but still the boy, a...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | FL, OR, Sonnet, SU
Memory Better than Sunny Daydream’s Ocean Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “And by mere playing go to heaven” ~ Henry Vaughan, “Childhood” in Silex Scintillans (1655) It is as if the river has submerged My...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | DA, DO, IV, JA, WH, WO
The Orange Grove Behind Our House Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A grove can take us anywhere. The leaves Shine distances: blood’s pirates that we play Are in the Caribbean*. Vision cleaves Us with...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | AR, GA, LU
Richard Wilbur in Omiscience Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For Tom Wehtje When poetry is poetry, it zings Eternity as if the one true God Remembered after He had made the wings Of gold on Gabriel that...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | DO, FL, IV, PH, TI, WO
Little Pulses in a Sabbath Afternoon after Church— Helen Not Knowing Any Better Gets Some Rest Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A belfry or a Steeple Without a bell spreads Peace by citrus groves. ~ Shiki...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | AU
Uncertain Omens on a Dry Pond, Georgia Farm with American Beauty Berries Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Aunt Ruby turns the light on in the room And suddenly the garden twilight burns To darkness. This...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | Sonnet
At Least It Wasn’t at the Piggly Wiggly Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He dreamed he went to A & P . . . and not. The street was there, but dreamscape, indistinct In dreams, their weather never quite...
