by Ivory Web | Aug 3, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Better DaysThe painters had taken off the switchcovers. I looked in the silverware drawer. No knives. A big kid in coveralls stood in the doorway unscrewing a long handle from a roller. Guessin’ you ain’t the electrician, he said. I said...
by Ivory Web | Aug 2, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The Balconyafter Eugenio MontaleRemember those nights I’d linger belowas you stood in the stars and we’d talkof leaving, as if auditioning for the partof Romeo and fluffing my lines as usual?Now on the opposite side I lean smokingand think on that handful of...
by Ivory Web | Aug 1, 2010 | Reviews
Love and Other Conflicts by Geoff Stevens (poems on CD)This morning my hangover didn’t want to let me go, pulling me back into bed each time I tried to stand up. Leave off, I said to myself. Geoff Stevens made me promise to review his new CD. If I don’t do it today it...
by Ivory Web | Jul 31, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* Rachel Green is a novel writer who will shortly become an novel author but she starts every day with walking her dogs and writing poetry. She has also started 'tweeting' an early morning haiku from her Twitter account – you can find her here...
by Ivory Web | Jul 30, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The LovesickWritten in response to the Carry On film 'Follow That Camel!'We're just like Bo and Nocker in a 1960s film; two mugs drawn in by something like a belly-dancer's tasselled hips, kidnapped the day we pause to shake out shoes and underwear...
