by Ivory Web | May 15, 2011 | Interviews
Seven QuestionsIn this series Ink Sweat & Tears talks to practicing writers about their process.1. Where do you write? Mainly in my head. My poems are at least half-made before I begin physically writing. My best ideas always come when I give myself some...
by Ivory Web | May 14, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
CrossIt’s stupid to argue about why I waste food and why you spent your childhood licking plates. Now I’m sulking in the bathroom staring at rust on the radiator, listening for your careful voice outside the door. Everything in here orbits my ridiculous mood:...
by Ivory Web | May 12, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
How she goesAnd after allhow goes she forwardwhen the wind blows in our face?Forces like clasping hands converge,Mark says – sail pushed sideways,keel resisting ...
by Ivory Web | May 11, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Frank“My husband was called Frank,”she announces, and her words hang in the moment like icicles,stunned by the sound of his name. We try to plumb her memory furtherbut Frank is spirited away,frozen out by bolder ghosts,Mum and Dad,sister Jennieand brother Billy...
by Ivory Web | May 10, 2011 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
peeps and trillsa winding trailto the dogwood *after a rompan edge of goldin the horse’s eye *flying squirrelthe ready acceptanceof a thin branch*the farm horseout of harnessscent of straw *step stoollearning dad’s waysto maneuver the brush *beach...
