by Ivory Web | Aug 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Girl in the HallLet’s call her Hetty, this girl who isn’t me,this thin white one,this bare-knuckled beautywho lives in the wallpaper,thin as wallpaper,this bruise-eyed darling, this one I’m half in love with,Who lives in the wall, tap-tapping her urgent...
by Ivory Web | Aug 26, 2011 | Reviews
Betty Herbert The 52 Seductions, Headline Publishing Group, 2011. £12.99I must confess that I began to read this book with some trepidation. Not having read the original blog I imagined it would a cruder version of Sex in the City. However the narrator Betty has a...
by Ivory Web | Aug 25, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Music of Default1. I guess, if you collect someof those strings and hold themin one hand, it can tendto look like a bouquet,said the sleb.The city does something to your brain:both the amygdala and cingulate cortex are over activeif and when lost in the...
by Ivory Web | Aug 24, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Grain of SandI grew out of a grain of sand.My legs were small, but Icould walk great distancesbecause my stamina wasincredible. My heart wastoo big for my body. It made melean like a thin tree withheavy branches. When itrained I would turn to mud.My steps grew...
by Ivory Web | Aug 23, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Skin This started out taut as some notes upon skinbut my skin’s too thinand let’s other things in.It’s a form of osmosisnew words just soak inso the poem I finishwon’t be the one I begin. The hide on this poemis like a balloonthat expands and expands‘til it...
