by Ivory Web | Aug 12, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Travelling You have been travelling with me for decades;even before you were born;your toothbrush next to mine in my suitcase,the bristles damp from the cold water in our last hotel. I tipped the porter through your fingers;your napkin wiped my lower...
by Ivory Web | Aug 11, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
We've got another collection of short items for you today by Tania Hershman, Vanessa Gebbie and Jim Murdoch but we start with a short flash piece (as if there could be a long flash piece) by Sarah Hilary which she wrote as a modern day response to the famous six...
by Ivory Web | Aug 9, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
• Rachel Green is a novel writer who will shortly become an novel author but she starts every day with walking her dogs and writing poetry. Books of haiku available from www.leatherdyke.co.uk
by Ivory Web | Aug 8, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Two LettersWhen I lower myself on to the cold park bench, Doctor Kaldor’s letter crackles in my pocket like fire. I look around me in mute desperation. The old man is there again, on the next bench, wearing the same army coat and tattered woollen hat. I can smell him...
by Ivory Web | Aug 7, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Slides Into the KeywayIt's quite simple. His name is Jarvin, the keeper ofthe keys. Hooked to a belt loop, they dangle as hewalks and make a hard kerplunk on the worn oak stoolwhere he parks his keister for the long afternoon.Jarvin's your man when facing a...
