by Ivory Web | Sep 29, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
GatheringBrambles twine round crosses, stray across shaded paths; proffer blackberries mostly still to ripen.The few we pickleave our fingers purple-inkylike schoolboys’: plump, glossy beautiesup high or hiddenunder the lower leaves; drystubby-looking things, rats’...
by Ivory Web | Sep 28, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Undressing for DeathThe bathroom shrieksas I take off my skin,peel casing to carcass.Tonight I remove it all.Stepping out is easy,it’s been coming off for days.What a relief. It does not flatter me,I need more colour in my cheeks.Where are my manners?I have not...
by Ivory Web | Sep 27, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Stratospheric disturbancePerhaps that night I said too much,ignoring niceties to eclipse the strident voices baying in misunderstanding and meanness.My incoherent anger was misread for greed, dissatisfaction with what was left, unaware I wanted nothing.Unlike the...
by Ivory Web | Sep 26, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
LOCKED She could be tired and distressed. Yes and voices tended to sound the same muffling around her head it is said that eyes tell all but hers were fallen from view. She was tied up all the time and time was outside her statutory rights. She felt it like a...
by Ivory Web | Sep 24, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Next week – on the 1st October to be exact – sees the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence from the United Kingdom. Here is a timely poem on that topic by Nnorom Azuonye…This Land is not a Land of Terrorto Ayogu Eze
My first clothes were sewn by...
by Ivory Web | Sep 22, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Mashkàr the MagicianBefore God as my witness, on the tip every one of my fingersperch firebirds. You cannot see them, but listen. Close your eyes.Hear their burning plumage. Smell the fumes of flaring wings.Excellent. Now, open your eyes wider than a child on her...
