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PS: Your Poem a Week w/ Philippe Shils

​A poem and a picture weekly for a year.  #weeklypoemandpic

PS: SOCIAL MEDIA/BOOKS/BAND

Jealousies

3/26/2021

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Picture
Jealousies

She said: My family used to laugh at him
but now he repairs their things.
Imagine if he wrote poetry
how the words would cohese.

She had spread over her
body a concoction of his devising and
she smelled of leather and damp spring.

He’d cooked her a midnight meal
and the skin she chewed
was crisped and brown.

She’d known he was for her
when she saw him at the flea market
buying something broken and smiling
as he held it tight to his chest.

I said I wish my mind was like his
and she said your mind is just fine.

#weeklypoemandpicplus
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part 15: floor is lava

3/21/2021

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Picture


floor is lava

alongside a
courteous
moon

on a planet
corseted
to a sun

are sculpted
manors with
layerless floors
burnished
smooth as agar

address your letter :
the immolatory fields

a devotional
path to
the scoriae

the blazing
hearth
a threshold
crossing
one breath
in and ash
ash

ask the
wallmakers
for your turn
when to burn
and learn
the igneous
forms:

soot and glaze
and eschar

no promise
of gentle things
slumped corners

for a moment
the cinders make
tender but then
again obsidian

the kindling
done the
kindling gone

#weeklypoemandpicplus ​

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14. ​withoutfanfare

3/15/2021

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Picture
​without
fanfare

200 year
old rock
fish looks

on and
I try
to de
scribe

it with
out call
ing it
wise be

mused or
resigned be

cause it
is a fish
although
old so

don’t call
it mad larry
or sweet joe
or solemn
sam be

cause
he wants for
nothing
just to
be al

though
it is ok to
be dis
appointed
in the fisher
man who

pulled her
without
struggle
from
the sea

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time traveling paul

3/2/2021

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Picture
​time traveling paul

confronted with his
other selves
recalled

lecture 1:
time paradoxes
resolve in favor
of coherence

his aggravation
decreased as
he acknowledged
his many faces
and erased
all but
his own

labeled:
petty
dour
careless
efficient
bold

he dabbled
visited and
took stock

not forgotten
because
never
has been

not even
the dust
of wings
beneath
the pins

ah the luxury
of travel
oh the joy of
what is
ah the reassurance
of resolution

empty
winter
wasp
nest
cells

in lecture 2
he was advised

that renown
may be available
as the remainder
so he pulled the
lever many times

#weeklypoemandpicplus
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    PS: Your Poem a Week w/

    Philippe Shils - he lives in central Illinois. He has chapbooks available from Underground Books, Right Hand Pointing Press, and a collaborative one with his band The Red Wheelbarrows available at gigs and on Facebook by request. He plays old time banjo and has two kids who are patient with their father.
    Check out his New Band, Books and Social Media!! 

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