by Ivory Web | Oct 11, 2011 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
*Pris Campbell’s haiga have appeared in Haigaonline, Haijinx, Sketchbook, Notes From the Gean and others. She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize for her free verse poetry. She has also published six collections of poetry. Formerly a Clinical...
by Ivory Web | Oct 10, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
from Would Passenger Sappho Proceed to Gate 314To leave you now’s to waveout of a window under fortywatt yellow into night that shades the squat concretebut splits to corridors of headlamp and filament darkening again to block and...
by Ivory Web | Oct 9, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
On Writing Confusing PoemsI write confusing poems, I am told.When the doorbell ringsI race down the stairsin my sexy high heel boots -expecting to see you there.A mirage of mind, I think.What the hell -I will go back to my desk alone -hold the nib in my hand,and write...
by Ivory Web | Oct 8, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
When You’re Ready the Right Man will Come AlongTaking my cup of tea back to bed this morning,the air was stillbut I could just see, obliquely,the telegraph wire stretched across the streetvibrating and saggingquite alarmingly. What bloody heavy sodding bird is that? I...
by Ivory Web | Oct 7, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
SandblastedEyes trained on the distance, beyond the lighthouse, out to sea. Standing on the metal, clang and echo. Once you could slip inside through the gap, wander round, through the eerie concrete passageways, but not any more. Too grown up, too big. This used to...