by Ivory Web | Feb 3, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Deep Hum She is sealing the letter when the hum starts. The house had been silent; the heating turned off this mild November morning and only a sullen pigeon on the telegraph wire outside. The hum presses, unrelenting. It seems to be coming from underneath her,...
by Ivory Web | Feb 1, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
The Jolly Joker of Jerusalem First things first when the holy books burstand lime pits are plannedin this thirsty, troubled land of passionand beauty and flavour,and the mind is minedfor the Cruising crazeand the neighbours prayand bray and fast for the festival...
by Ivory Web | Jan 31, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
From Athena of the cityIAthena of the city,there’s no Acropolis here, in what August makes out of this place, upturned umbrellas and wind of high-pitch, the summerof sales and last-chances.So I try and travel the cities of London as if you’ve never left. In every...
by Ivory Web | Jan 29, 2012 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
fog rolls along the moorsa chilly night in SussexMrs.Woolf's library *grandpa's old watchfound in a dresser drawerit's been 1:30 pm forever *night time silenceone car passes bythe crickets stop chirping *the bleakness of winterwatching the...
by Ivory Web | Jan 28, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Plainchant (Voyages)All day we travel and the way is hard going. For fourteen weeks and two days we have been those souls in the wilderness. But now must we pack up and be gone from this thicket. Take this way and be good. When the mountain is in view all will be well...
