by Ivory Web | Apr 1, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Living Shadows The flames burned high, lending a tremulous luminescence to the paper screen. On our side all was darkness. My baby sister’s hand was hot in mine; she drew comfort from my soon-to-be-married status, which banished monsters as surely...
by Ivory Web | Mar 31, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Fairy Tales In your telling of it, that farm cottageheld all the detailed charmof a painting – the sun purringagainst its white walls, its half-dooropening onto a yard of hens, anda tractor standing noble in its red coat. But touch the paint and it...
by Ivory Web | Mar 30, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
I understand the concept of synchronicity – I mean my favourite movies are always brought up in my favourite TV shows. That means I’m doing something right, right? Today I ate more pasta than any human has ever eaten. 2 sittings of cheesy goodness and now I’m...
by Ivory Web | Mar 29, 2010 | Reviews
Luke Wright: High Performance, Nasty Little PressPoetry is a hybrid art and a pure one. It is pure because, at one level, in its origins, it is spell and cry, an oral art that enchants and conjures. On the other hand, the history of poetry is bound up in writing – in...
by Ivory Web | Mar 28, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Sunday Afternoon Conjuring Our memories, black backwash,buckle me this afternoon, my silent discourse with youdarkens the day.I shove you within the holes of my bones,but you slip out, and I’m trapped inour universe that no longer exists. I can’tchew off a foot, rip...
