by Ivory Web | May 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Alchemy Your face like a kitten, small in the morning, where two commas mark a smile broad enough to section the heart of a lamband turn a pressed coin of copper the likeness of aurum. Was it a fool’s morning, that set me bright on my way my ventricles...
by Ivory Web | May 25, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Remote LifeI was for a moment called out of my ghost lifeby your text message on my mobile,I was sitting at the table watching TVlooking at a remote control there by my hand…they were four really, the remote controls,the old one for the TVto still switch it on and off...
by Ivory Web | May 24, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Insomniaworst, the potassium flashes; electric questions crackle;numbered doubts on tickets, in chest-press black,Progress Papers for this pilgrim to solve before the bell; the invigilator’s foot-steps will stop.It’s the shutting out, short-circuiting news,the haunt...
by Ivory Web | May 23, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Family Album
On the scan you are tiny – a whiteness
in a dark sky. Your breath steams in patches,
ghost white strokes on the photograph.
(I want to step into the picture to see what happens.
I want to go between the blackness and the clouds).
You stitched...
by Ivory Web | May 23, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Roman Holiday BluesMy first visit to St Peter’s Square was cut short by a volcanic eruption. I’d been remembering a scene from Roman Holiday at the time, the one with the Mouth of Truth. First the ground shook. Then Princess Anya pointed to the purple sky....
