It is written on the movie poster

For The Ghost of Frankenstein

Starring Lon Chaney

(“The sensational creator of the Wolfman”)

As Frankenstein:

Stark

Terror!

Added thrills

     In a

Spine tingling

  Experience.

Why can’t poetry be more like that?



Louis Phillips’ recent poetry publications include The Domain of Silence, The Domain of Absence: New and Selected Poems (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2015), The Domain of Small Mercies: New & Selected Poems ], Volume 2 (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2017), How Wide the Meadow (World Audience Publishers, 2019).