by Ivory Web | Jan 21, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Cats At Their Bowls Lapping This time there’s a postscript:“If ever I cook dinner for you,it will be Coquilles St. Jacquesand Jefferson Davis Pie.” Imagine Angela,after all these years,rising and glidingto check on my pie, wouldn’t that be...
by Ivory Web | Jan 20, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
The Hatch Each night I do the rounds, monitor hearts’ contractions by lamplight’s gleam, press nerves down crumpled spines and wrap skin round bones as paper holds a watermark’s ghost, graft cells onto glass-bound wings.I feed drops from a...
by Ivory Web | Jan 19, 2012 | Reviews
Running With Scissors: Poems by Tim Lenton(Published by Jokerman House, 22 Aspland Road, Norwich NR1 1SH, 2011, Pamphlet: £3.00 22pp)Tim Lenton is a fine poet who deserves much wider publication and recognition. He is a former newspaper sub-editor and columnist...
by Ivory Web | Jan 18, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
ButtercupThe boy was coaxed into the roomclad for the first timein his new school uniformnothing was saidthe heavy silence in the dim lightwarned of a new unknownleaden on the bedhis fearful eyes spokebut nothing else moved.After purposeful nudgingyoung lips sought...
by Ivory Web | Jan 17, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Hot Water Portrait: TranslationI said Reader, There’s romance in the article of how-to-burn-a-bush, of dusk with highway; trains. Let me explain how the pull-cord gesture damns the overpass. Orpheus reached for it, and it was gone. There is, are too distractions, pink...
