by Ivory Web | Aug 21, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
My Sister’s Poems After the divorce, my sister moves from a temporary crash in our parents’ house to a smaller apartment down the street, leaving in her wake scattered boxes. I paw through her high school memorabilia, discover that my eldest sister, like me, once...
by Ivory Web | Aug 19, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Banished BastardsThis is where trees wrapshadows about my shoulders,cool, uncorrupt.Breezes beckon, tell me timeis well. White Dahlias, Orange Lillies,gregarious pink Geraniumsplant lush kisses, lux-filledon my face, available virtuous lovers,this season’s...
by Ivory Web | Aug 18, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Too Late Too late to cross your fingers now, there'sblood on them, a splinter under the skinand seven years of it, if you believe it. You believe it, too, like magpies and the pullof a full moon, or a new moon seen through glass: you turn the...
by Ivory Web | Aug 17, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
ANOTHER TRAIN RIDE As we approached New Haven Station you walked up towards the front of the car, near my seat, waiting for the train to stop. It moved slowly, in herky-jerky motions. You bent down and looked over my shoulder to see out the window. My wife...
by Ivory Web | Aug 16, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
DoppelgängerShe is anywhere before metying thread on significant twigs or following behindleaving trails of white...
