by Ivory Web | Jul 23, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
IF SALMON RUN So many fish are clearing the dams this year.Thanks to the heavy rainfall of coursebut maybe the urge for the spawning placesis riper than weariness and gravity. Look out the window, Christine…those silver bodies, one after the...
by Ivory Web | Jul 22, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Via NegativaMy mother was not Christ, but she was spat at. My father was not Christ, but he didn’t always know this. The two of them met in a garden, but they were not Adam and Eve. And when my mother became pregnant, this was considered a miracle, and when pregnant...
by Ivory Web | Jul 20, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
October Elegy After the burial she walked with me,Where tall trees, standing in a clearSunlight, cast strict shadows acrossThe drive – a woman just past fifty,Elegant and gracious, lovely to see.”You came all the way from Maine, they say.You must have been very...
by Ivory Web | Jul 19, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
3. Better By Far By bus?Better by far a magic carpetfinely knotted, richerthan blood, broad enoughto keep the family together,islanded, apartfrom every danger,journeying swiftlyacross the unsegmented sky –not in the cauldron of summer,but in...
by Ivory Web | Jul 18, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
developersthe cracks in the memory of childhood summersare turning boot polish blackthe hillonce a site for a thousand tumblesthrough singing grassesnow lies barren: home to creeping machinesa mound of hopes gone sourthe two men who stand at the topsurveying a map of...
