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Phillip Doherty -
Poet
Phillip Doherty is a husband to an extraordinary and tolerant
woman, a father to a wonderful and clever son, and house-mate to a
hypo-manic German shepherd dog, a border-collie/golden cross with,
appropriately, a borderline personality disorder, a Siamese cat with
passive-aggressive tendencies, and dust-bunnies that would choke a
blue whale. Phillip is a mental health case manager with a
not-for-profit agency in Toronto, and has worked in the mental health
field for over 15 years.
Phillip holds a
degree in English Literature from Queen's University and has been
writing poetry and stories since his childhood. The Dohertys live in
a home in Ajax, Ontario, with a lot of brown grass that has been
irreparably damaged by the aforementioned house-mates. |
Self-portrait
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Phillip Doherty
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on a
wooden floor,
the
artist sits upright in a pool of white paint,
his black-trousered legs splay, while
his bare feet bookend the mess.
his
grey shirt is barely visible
behind the white towel he wears on his head;
covering his eyes and mouth,
the towel is large and it spreads up into the air
to the
branches of a birch tree beside him,
with a thin trunk and unseen tips.
his fists clutch blue paint
which
dribbles out between his fingers
landing on the floor; so that a hundred little white
eyes can look up to the sky.
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Other Poetry by Phillip Doherty can be found at The Ontario
Poetry Society - Oshawa Branch
website |
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