by phillipw | Jul 30, 2019 | LO
Release I open up an envelope and time Unfolds. We think the past is closed to us But then a simple gesture sounds a chime Which swings the lost gates wide. That Pegasus Called memory goes winging up. Pale wings Embrace the air impossibly. ...
by phillipw | Jul 30, 2019 | LO
X-change of Gifts And what about the cards and poems, quotes, The flowers he sent to me? They don’t exist. I packaged all of them, his little notes, His trinkets that I’d kept like treasured cysts In my aorta, tiny souvenirs He’d handmade, made from...
by phillipw | Jul 30, 2019 | LO, SO
A Failure by Two Men Sharing the Writing, Back and Forth, of a Sonnet Sequence A sonnet sequence is by nature one- Sided, so far as history is concerned. So maybe it will be extremely un- Expected if I say why this one’s turned Out boringly to fit that mold. ...