by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | FR
Barraqué, Un Homme Piquant comme Moi The newer teacher didn’t know me long Before he asked, “You are a tetchy friend, Aren’t you?” Mais oui, I think that it is wrong For friends to treat us badly. There’s an end To that discussion. What’s the use,...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | IS
Christian and Muslim in North Africa Devoted as that Berber, Augustine Of Hippo, Antonin defends belief. Why shouldn’t he? The young man’s mind is clean, As clean as desert dunes without relief From blasts of wind and brutal sun, as pure As cool oasis water, still,...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | RI, WI
[Arthur Rimbaud and Oscar Wilde were born four days apart from each other. They both died and are buried in France. Wilde arrived as a student at Oxford at the same time that Rimbaud was abandoning poetry and teaching French in the large house of his employer in...