by Ivory Web | Apr 3, 2011 | Reviews
The Suitable Girl by Michelle McGrane, Pindrop Press 2010The Suitable Girl, Michelle Mcgrane’s third collection, is brimming with sumptuous concrete detail and mythology. Running just below the surface of the poems is an undercurrent of threat and violence. This may...
by Ivory Web | Mar 30, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Dream's DreamGarlanded with moonlightyour body dreamsas I, awakenedby the moonlight’s touchupon my sleepingskingaze with admirationof this paintingthat the moonlightpaints of you.Behind your eyesyour dreamingsifts throughthoughtsuntil it comesto thisand you...
by Ivory Web | Mar 29, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Envy of Cleopatra The kohl painted eyes of Cleopatrawould flash to darkest greenif they could ever seethe top of my lover’s headtanned and shiny, like a beautiful nutas it is bowed to menot as he brings gifts from many lands,or in displays of humilityor in...
by Ivory Web | Mar 28, 2011 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
ocean breezea half step laterscent of lime thundersnoweach daughterhugs a leg new furrowa shimmeron rose quartz first camp nighttwo small boysso awake* Bill Cooper is Distinguished University Professor and President Emeritus at the University of...
by Ivory Web | Mar 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Arranging the maskAs you stare at the shadowthat clouds the wall of the nightyou sense the solidity of presenceyou shiver deep inside whenyou’re splayed nakedgrappling the inner pulseout of depth and scared.The hammer strikes the anvilan echo fills your chestreasons,...
