by Ivory Web | Dec 25, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Well I don't expect anyone else to be working today, so here are a couple of haibun for the Christmas holiday season that I finished recently…TWO HAIBUN FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYSby Charles ChristianShimmering in gold, two little angels – halos askew –...
by Ivory Web | Dec 24, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
The Last Present Before he diedHe bought and wrappedThis presentIt sits in my cupboardThe snowmen have Waved many summers Away nowAnd stillI can notBring myselfTo unwrap This last present. She told me this And I did not laughDid not entice Her to unwrapBut...
by Ivory Web | Dec 23, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation(On Reading Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric)This TENS machine knows its job, electric impulsessent out at just the appropriate levels to sting and twitch the muscles in a rhythmic cadence.I am reading Whitman by accident or...
by Ivory Web | Dec 22, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Awkward eating, taken out to lunch by someone I meetfor the first time,someone I know I’ll like,want to like me.Eating with my pudding spoon,chorizo, braised celery,and things I don’t look atlong enough to recognisebecause I’m staring at himas if he...
by Ivory Web | Dec 21, 2008 | Word & Image
Billy Collins reads his poem The Country – the animation is by Brady Baltezor of Radium.
