by Ivory Web | Jun 21, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Twice Baked PotatoesI come home andyou are makingtwice-baked potatoes andit smellsso homely andso wholesome andyou turn round andwipeyour hands on your trousers andwe have a potato-scented kiss andwe pour red wine andI slosh it about a bit andpretend to be like Oz...
by Ivory Web | Jun 20, 2010 | Reviews
Advice on Wearing Animal Prints by Selima Hill, £5.50 Flarestack Poets, 2009Selima Hill’s pamphlet Advice On Wearing Animal Prints charts the life of the eccentric Agatha. To achieve some coherence for the reader, Hill wisely anchors the surreal tale in a mostly...
by Ivory Web | Jun 19, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
With the historic Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland in 1972 published earlier this week, we have a timely reflection here on those events…One Sunday Every Sunday teatime, the same:salad or sandwiches, tinned fruit, tinned...
by Ivory Web | Jun 18, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
breaking groundbefore the cue to digearthworms a hollowbetween dunesscent of rye climb towardthe lantern roomher warm glance beneath layersof...
by Ivory Web | Jun 17, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Freezer BurnThe husband hunts down his biggest calamities; tiptoes upon them. A shotgun never whispers, he's quick to comment. Ties them to his car and heads back.Parts will be jerky for his kids to chew on. Some his wife will stew or bake into pies...
