by Ivory Web | Aug 23, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The 2009 Ink Sweat & Tears anthology is now available. In fact it should have been available weeks ago but IS&T knuckle-dragging publisher Charles Christian couldn't get his act together earlier. (Hey, who writes this stuff? Oh, yes, I do… CC) The...
by Ivory Web | Aug 19, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Banished BastardsThis is where trees wrapshadows about my shoulders,cool, uncorrupt.Breezes beckon, tell me timeis well. White Dahlias, Orange Lillies,gregarious pink Geraniumsplant lush kisses, lux-filledon my face, available virtuous lovers,this season’s...
by Ivory Web | Aug 18, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Too Late Too late to cross your fingers now, there'sblood on them, a splinter under the skinand seven years of it, if you believe it. You believe it, too, like magpies and the pullof a full moon, or a new moon seen through glass: you turn the...
by Ivory Web | Aug 17, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
ANOTHER TRAIN RIDE As we approached New Haven Station you walked up towards the front of the car, near my seat, waiting for the train to stop. It moved slowly, in herky-jerky motions. You bent down and looked over my shoulder to see out the window. My wife...
by Ivory Web | Aug 16, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
DoppelgängerShe is anywhere before metying thread on significant twigs or following behindleaving trails of white...
by Ivory Web | Aug 12, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
SEARCH AND DESTROY I hear the windrubbing palm leavestogether; thesound of speedingcars, engines, birds;a woman's sneeze,children laughing,someone whistling;old men and oldwomen talking,sirens, alarms;there is alwayssomething searchingto destroy thesilence I...
