by Ivory Web | Sep 17, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
THE PUPPET MASTERThe puppet master who is always dusted with darkness,is about to end his performance.His marionette has slithered staring to the stage floorwhere her mother, father and sister,will never have to meet her empty eyes, or seeexactly how she is sprawled...
by Ivory Web | Sep 14, 2007 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
UnderfootAfter tea I notice the magpie again. It is on the driveway, looking around. It waddles up to the rose tree which has a number of hips visible among the branches. It turns, crosses the footpath and on to the lawn.Before disappearing into the bottom of...
by Ivory Web | Sep 13, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
Aging VesselMy brittle skeletonis trapped in the prison of my festering fleshand keeps my soul an inmate,clinging to my splintering bonesPhilosophic RamblingsIn the coincidence of lifewe postpone death daily,yet rarely seek higher purpose.Now that we have been...
by Ivory Web | Sep 11, 2007 | Reviews
The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver Cape (2006)66pp, £9.00ISBN: 0224076841It has taken twelve years for Vicki Feaver’s third collection, The Book of Blood, to appear. The ‘Blood’ of the title includes the blood of murder, sacrifice, menstruation, ancestry, and of wild...
by Ivory Web | Sep 10, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
JAZZ MUSICIANa jazz musicianis someonewho takes a familiartuneand using all his skilland talentmakes it as unfamiliaras possibleBRANDEDI have noticedof latehow many womenhave tattooson the smallof their backsas thoughthey've been brandedlike cattle• These are the...
