by Ivory Web | Sep 16, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Bumper Sticker Man Baldo lifted the satchel and climbed aboard the aged bicycle—broken spokes and no brakes, seat or bell, but it rode well enough and the wide handles held the satchel pages of perforated bumper stickers. He rode through traffic with lips...
by Ivory Web | Sep 15, 2011 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
My Favourite Things Haikus Bacon Sizziley, sizzle In the pan I’ll fry you and Lick fat from your back. ‘Just a friend’ And now you hopscotch From holding my foetus hand To kissing my neck. *Hay Brunsdon: “I am a 22 year old...
by Ivory Web | Sep 14, 2011 | Reviews
Micrographia by Robert Dickinson. Waterloo Press 51pp. £9.00‘Micrographia’ is a medical term for the abnormally small, cramped handwriting often associated with Parkinson’s disease. Yet the word also suggests ‘Micrography’, a technique of building up pictures...
by Ivory Web | Sep 13, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The night he makes her sleep on the floorshe curls blue and shivering like a newbornabandoned at someone’s door. She holds screamsin her fists while he snuffles in his sleep. The secondstick in her head and she wears the hours like the trainof a wedding dress, drags...
by Ivory Web | Sep 12, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Captain HookThe Dark Lady isn’t encouraging: no one wants to hear about your kidney stones.But it’s a funny story, I say, filled with pathos, historical intrigue, heroism.It’s thirty-year-old nonsense, she says, but I’ve seen her naked, so I’m not about to listen to...
