by Ivory Web | Feb 20, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Regular IS&T contributor (and Austrian resident) Gwilym Williams has just translated these two short poems by the late Christine Busta from the original German. The poems were first published Busta's collection Wenn du das Wappen der Liebe malst…Gedichte...
by Ivory Web | Feb 19, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
RunningThose springloaded, aerodynamic NikesTouch my old heart for their simple fore-runner,The plain gymshoe, plimsoll or sandshoe, whichWe whitened then with bottled white, first cousinTo the chalky compound that coated the trundling wheelOf the contraption that...
by Ivory Web | Feb 17, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
We haven't published any sonnets on IS&T for some time but this one really ticked all the boxes – in a pleasantly subversive way…A sad soggy sonnetShe wore a lampshade on her head that daydespite the warnings of the weather manwho promised rain. She...
by Ivory Web | Feb 16, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
A Billion Lilies I dream A hundred wishesAs the day beginsTo loom. I taste 2000 kissesAs they pranceAround my room. I think A million sillies As my headBegins to spin. I smell A billion liliesAs I tumbleIn the...
by Ivory Web | Feb 14, 2009 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* Alexis Rotella is a regular contributor of both traditional and digital haiga to IS&T. We're publishing this today because the sun is shining and it feels like the start of spring.
