by Ivory Web | Aug 6, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
C-H-A-I-N-S I snuggle cold and cozyChains to keep me warm ?But the rain gets in.Each dizzying drop drips deep beneathUnevenly spaced slateRotten wood soggy and engorged…Shaking unwilled.Shivering sendsChattering teeth and Rattling rings of iron.Endless...
by Ivory Web | Aug 5, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Peace Offeringtalons ripthe bleating heartsparkle berries driptheir winegrasp and grabfive inches deepvisible by Julyflutter wingsa pink profusionbrown hangson the vinethreads of silver spundog-eared leavesfrom the book of lifedeath slithered nighsipping syrupy...
by Ivory Web | Aug 4, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Gone I am going to Death on a tiger. My journey is not hard; we talk all the way. There are scratches on us but we look forward; the scratches don’t hurt. An eyelash of mine falls on the tiger’s head. I pick it up, wish for safe passage but drop it. The tiger shakes...
by Ivory Web | Aug 1, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Kara-Sue, You Deserve Better Things We bonded over broken bones,displayed our woundsat check out number seven.Her namebadge said Kara-Sueand I thought it unfaironly she had one,but I didn't say my name.There wasn't really time.An old man scowledbehind...
by Ivory Web | Jul 31, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
IN A STRANGE TOWN How...