by Ivory Web | Jan 31, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Keeping Company With TimeStaring out of the photograph is the face of a ninety-one-year-old former railway worker who’s spent three decades caring for a clock. Not the family-heirloom, wedding-present kind that ticked away in pride of place on mantelpieces long before...
by Ivory Web | Jan 29, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
IN HIS BEARD A COLLECTION OF SWEET BREADOn the emergency roomtable a bearded manbeing examined wasfound with ants in his beard.Each ant carried crumbs of sweetbread, which they could notenjoy because the nursewho cleaned the man's white beard,swept the ants away,...
by Ivory Web | Jan 27, 2008 | Word & Image
OF BEAUTYREGRET• This is Deborah Gordon's first appearance on IS&T. She says “I began writing at the age of seven and since then have never really stopped. I like to experiment with all different styles and mediums and the concept of...
by Ivory Web | Jan 25, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
we should all be cynicsI'm surrounded byidiot optimistscynical is the onlyway to be.Mom says shemisses someonesaying, “I love you.”I told herdon't miss it,they're always lyingshe laughed her optimismclear off.the orangesI keep a basket of...
by Ivory Web | Jan 23, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
RumoursThey said she was a witch –The old woman at number forty-nine,So we never played ball near her houseOr chased her cat.The crowd outside the chip shopMoved when she appeared,She never said “excuse me”Like everyone else.When I fell over, running past her houseShe...
