by Ivory Web | Jun 27, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
So say I love you – Anon To say I love youAnonymouslyTo say I careAnonymouslyTo give a gift to show affectionAnonymouslySo foolish.So unrequitedSo AnonymousSo Unknown Be upfrontShout it loudBe boldBe known. But it’s not that easyAll the...
by Ivory Web | Jun 26, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
INDENTIONS On my rooftopcity stretching beyond. Sound of shadowsin late night. You're pressing into metease and tug. Posing your breasts,flinging out your arms.Gravel on your bare back.~ ~ ~ ~ ~NIGHT FRINGEWe sit with our sticksstirring the...
by Ivory Web | Jun 25, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Concrete JungleClutch and thrust of the concrete jungle reminds me of you. Roots clutch at the soil, fingers of men buried alive, gasping their last into the thick brown earth. Stems thrust lightwards like cocks of men at play, criss-crossing, bobbing, stretching...
by Ivory Web | Jun 24, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
DANGER UNEXPLODED POEM Of course,we shouldn’t have gone,but there was the lureof abandoned buildings.Barricades.Signs which saidDANGER UXP.Unexploded poem,I explained to the others. Three of us ran the shadows down.Peeking into the smouldering craterto see...
by Ivory Web | Jun 23, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
LEAVINGSBefore the downpour and the flood, this stream was meant for sparrows as a spa. Now insects bubble in its yellow scum. Irresistible the side roads, like this mucky pocket-parkwhere leaves of Merovingian gold still lurk like scratch-cards in the mud....
