by Ivory Web | Sep 12, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Pioneer Rods of light punch through the shingles and illuminate the doll’s face. Its blue eyes are clouded by dust. A spider’s web clings lash to lash and tethers the right eye half shut. Between the taut threads, drops of moisture shiver and slip down its...
by Ivory Web | Sep 11, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Depth of SunsetThe depth of sunset pressures airshining like pearl and mother of pearlover the chrysalis water.The winds understand ages changing.Held aloft in the shape of my wantsI breathe as you breathefluttering numb like a diverwhile the green vastness...
by Ivory Web | Sep 10, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The JumperMy mother could conjure a cardigan in a few days – the soft clicking of needles from the back room was the sound track to our lives. An incomprehensible pattern lay open on one arm of her chair, a pile of slaughtered Embassy nub ends in an ashtray on the...
by Ivory Web | Sep 9, 2010 | Interviews
Nine QuestionsIn the third episode of our new series, Ink Sweat & Tears talks to practicing writers about their process and craft – and asks them nine questions…1. Where do you write? (do you have an office, room, bus or train journey that you find yourself...
by Ivory Web | Sep 8, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Open fires burnOutside homes, whileChildren favour disquiet over sleep. 5 o’clock darkness reminds the shopkeeper –Run from the evening dogs,Or fall with your brothers by the wayside. Oak trees shed faithfullyYear upon year. Sorrowful eyes looking...
