by Ivory Web | Oct 22, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
WoodsSliding through archesof elms sunshineyellow and warm as honey.Moss crawls over mudstonewhile squirrels skip around tree stumps.Imagine to be a sea gullin blue wind pushingair through your wing.After the long rainpine trees bendingwith cones.Branches etch evening...
by Ivory Web | Oct 21, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Home Remedy for a Broken HeartShe downed one bottle of Sauvignon,
took two double shots of vodka,
then gulped back three small G and Ts.Four Bloody Marys and her hair smelled of sickbut five flaming sambucas blurred her tastebuds and six cosmopolitans had her...
by Ivory Web | Oct 20, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Staving off a Natural Disaster And if by some miraclethe sun rose again at noonand we started to fly backwards,the earth around the moon, what then?Would we see that particular drama emerging in the static atmosphere, huddled in our own small...
by Ivory Web | Oct 19, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Something to KeepWe’re at the glassblowers and my mother- a repeat customer – is tryingto find the perfect gift.Oceans, gardens, boiled confectionary suggest themselves. There are bowlsand baubles, vases, abstractswans and snails and everything holds lightin its...
by Ivory Web | Oct 18, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
*Christopher Barnes’ first collection of poems Lovebites is published by Chanticleer. He is a participant writer for www.stemistry.com and recently read at Poetry Scotland’s Callendar Poetry Weekend.
