by Ivory Web | Sep 23, 2010 | Interviews
Nine QuestionsIn this new series Ink Sweat & Tears talks to practicing writers about their process and craft.1. Where do you write? (do you have an office, room, bus or train journey that you find yourself and your writing? etc)Because I live alone, I’m a bit...
by Ivory Web | Sep 22, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Mashkàr the MagicianBefore God as my witness, on the tip every one of my fingersperch firebirds. You cannot see them, but listen. Close your eyes.Hear their burning plumage. Smell the fumes of flaring wings.Excellent. Now, open your eyes wider than a child on her...
by Ivory Web | Sep 21, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Incantation Breathing his name beneath the frost;the vowels hum on her tongue like a charm. She buries the trowel into the concrete earth & places the mass of plug-hole hair into the gap, alongside ribbon-bound hazel twigs. Her hands force the brittle...
by Ivory Web | Sep 20, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
MedicationHe watched her eyes flickering open, small soft butterfly movements. He liked to watch her while she was sleeping as it was the only time she was at peace. It was like a lottery waiting to see how she would be when she awoke, so it was always with some...
by Ivory Web | Sep 19, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The Yoga Class Stretched arms, hands,fingers upwards, heads erectas if pulled by string to heaven’s sky. Legs taut, knees bentin stillness with breaththat marks time, one, two three. In slow motion, their graceful movesto music soft and low, alongside...
