J O H N P H I L L I P S
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A selection of poems from Heretic by John Phillips ~
Heretic
Today I made another mistake.
If I’m not careful, I’ll be caught.
What then? Years ago
they stopped burning heretics.
For me, they might bring it back.
I would almost want them to.
Only then might I forgive them.
This Floating World
Bashō
along the Fuji River
came upon an abandoned child,
two years old, crying.
From out his sleeve,
threw it some food,
walked on.
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In a dark
in a darkened room there’s a music
a music playing there
a woman slowly no
quickly passes she
into the room behind
dark in shadow the
dark
behind the music remains
doesn’t quite remain it stays by going
she stays now gone still lingers his
lips to her music
the music is not dark it is
in a darkened room it makes not dark
gives a certain light to
light to the lips saying dark saying
light is a woman in the dark
music of a woman
a woman in a dark room of
light a woman
dark light
each in the other being one each other
one is more than oneself or is not
woman is a man loving the woman is a
man and woman loving a newborn daughter in the dark
light loving a child sung to
in a room darkened by dark
lips on lips light
a certain music of
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