Poetry Posts are a bi-monthly email of new poems by Phyllis Stowell with the intention of carrying on a poetic dialogue. Individuals who wish to respond are invited to send to me a quote, a lyrical paragraph or a poem of their own. If appropriate, I will post this response in the GUEST folder. If individuals prefer to write something personal not for the GUEST folder, I will respond by email. Posts will be archived for a limited period of time.
Meditation on The Big Bang
Suppose at that instant afterward the strong nuclear and the weak – prone to entropy – combined with electromagnetic force as physicists propose [...]
Day’s End
He knew his star rose before his birth Galib As if – near the end of my days – I stepped into a stream mid-stream unable [...]
At Eighty Eight
It has become familiar You feel it through the mattress – a tremor and the way it lurches toward you in a fall Do you fear the Death Demon who relishes the [...]
Aubade II
Upward from the damp spore-aired forest floor an ibis-white light burst between the thighs of tree on its blue dot in the cosmic rainbow
East Wind
Even the east wind cannot bear it any longer; it turns into a secret light... The Terrace of Yen Li Shang-yin Dawn already sad I cast my net into the sea [...]
Against Entropy
You don't talk to the dead you talk at them setting the story aright a canoe overturned in rapids belongings sodden tied down by intention to survive words float to the surface old [...]