by Ivory Web | Nov 30, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Birthmother’s Handbook Choose another name for yourself, another city.Prepare for the nuisance of the body,a variegated allotment of pain and difficultythat presages old age. Rub your hands over your distending belly,but not like a brass lamp, not like...
by Ivory Web | Nov 28, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Stars and CricketsWhy don't you come on outto my place, baby?Let me give you the guided tour.Just take Old 40five miles or so,out past the signal-lightand Dewey's Auto Salvage,'round Ms. Johnsons' Hairpinand over the Princeton Wall,through the Snakeand...
by Ivory Web | Nov 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Hotel by a Railroad The hotel by the railroad was our home, and it fit my life as though the tracks going by were the memories of moving youth and the hotel itself the stable stopping off point of maturity. He owned it like he owned other things in town and he owned...
by Ivory Web | Nov 24, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Reviews
The Sleeper he stalked thru the world feeling the flowers as he ran every time he lost it it was usually found under his bed in the evening as the sun went down he looked up the birds were melting in the trees David Mac is a poet...
by Ivory Web | Nov 21, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Nursing after sneaking onto the roof of the apartmentmy friends and I break out the scotch and cigars they drink from fancy glasseslike my dead relative hadwhile I drink mine from a used soda bottle that still contains tracesof high fructose corn...
by Ivory Web | Nov 20, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
After John DonneThy firmnes draws my circle justAnd makes me end, where I begunne.History turns and these points also turnone to the other measuring the distanceof the pearl fixing the mute chant of constancy.And if, behind the shapes so drawn, squares, meadows and...
