by Ivory Web | Feb 11, 2007 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
A journey with my father You walk in shades of brown and metal. My tiny hand in yours is lost. A leaf consumed by the tree, I laugh and jump imaginary puddles. My yellow boots mark time on the ground and you smile. autumn sifts your bloodsugar and spice and...
by Ivory Web | Feb 8, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
GrizzlyShit, no, she thought. He can’t be dead. He just can’t be.Grizzly hadn’t woken up. He would sit in the same polyester shirt and trousers every time Angie saw him at the same table in the reference room. While she thumbed through career guides and circled job...
by Ivory Web | Jan 31, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
…so…soas on a streamwe softly sink into another moving period of beingliving, changingmotions of consciousness of becomingand my dreams follow alonginstances of emotion, trying to live in harmonywith beings like me and rhyming with the rhythms of pure...
by Ivory Web | Jan 27, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
BrideMiss Liddell was riding on the bus. The one that came past her flat had been full of kids headed for their schools in the city; they’d jeered at her from the long seat at the back, called her names. Rude names. Miss Liddell endured this...
by Ivory Web | Jan 22, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
Triptych for the Lone Night Gods and too much time is spent on thisyou only have so many hoursin a day you have to prioritisebecause a third of this is sleepor what now passes for sleepsplayed out...