by Ivory Web | Jan 4, 2012 | 12 days 2011
A Bus Shelter Near HereAusterity carol made from bits of carols and songsHere people don’t even know what a chav is. Everyone is a chav.There are no posh folk. Unemployment is rife. ChavTowns website.Once inAway inIn the bleakIn a shelter mean andColdNeighbours’...
by Ivory Web | Jan 3, 2012 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Zdenek sells Physalis alkekengi at Dejvická in December With him, at the dark, open jaw of the metro, Orange lanterns, that shoulder their own light. Tangerine knuckles to electrify the drawn dim, The wrapping of his hands and the drawing-in Of him, his coat,...
by Ivory Web | Jan 2, 2012 | 12 days 2011
The Bastle HouseEmma looks at the moorland as faces fly by. The alpacas are in the middle of the field. She watches as they drift back, their bodies leaving slanted shadows on the white land under yellow sky. The westerly wind drifts down off the moorland and across...
by Ivory Web | Jan 1, 2012 | 12 days 2011
JanusIt takes real skill to look both ways.Notice how I keep an eye on yesterdaywhilst deftly skipping over todayonto the thin ice of tomorrow.I know thresholds, those small eventsthat happen between here and there.A small movement and things become,or end, or twist...
by Ivory Web | Dec 31, 2011 | 12 days 2011
The Goose Moon What are we doing above the poor sea?Do we dream this bridge of windwill reach the sour pines of Europe?Why bother pouring such weatherunder the goose moon. Why bring this denying wing downfrom all the worst clocks of the nightto reach no eye, no ear,...
