by Ivory Web | Jan 27, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
THE NEIGHBORShe pedals whenshe could coast–bingo, potluck,food bank volunteer.Stopping by our house,she recites heritinerary for the day –cheeks rouged –had muesli, no doubt,for breakfast.We turn the burnerdown low –politely listen –try to keepthe guilty bacon...
by Ivory Web | Jan 26, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Lost Roads 11.3.2009 I’m reading about lost Roman roads in a back issue of Smithsonian when a man and a woman come into the waiting room. She’s sixtyish, her hair an unconvincing auburn; his hair and beard are an honest white, but his face less lined than...
by Ivory Web | Jan 25, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Good Morning, rain is on its way. A funny weather pattern has taken shape on this last week of January. Temperatures above zero for a few days. Just like November. February will bring something else. The fourteen day outlook calls for temperatures...
by Ivory Web | Jan 24, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Childhood Thoughts from a Boat Damp with Pacific breath, my pillowis lit by a fringe of moon. A sequence of waves from a departing boat sloshesagainst the hull and jars the closet door open. Bells chime along the bougainvillea-tangledhill that juts above the...
by Ivory Web | Jan 22, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
they effervescein cosmic cauldrons – to leapwith frightful legs,these pangs of lightningalready gone ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ it must have been a roseto send the death rattle'szigzag bolt backhad it traveled one more instant,through my lips, I was...
