by Ivory Web | May 15, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Stradă Jezer In a bed that you fold downand once shared with your sister, we breathe mothballs caught on the thin soundsof swimming pool cries and laughteradrift from the benches between blocs 7 and 9. In scară A, apartament 5,your fingers cast...
by Ivory Web | May 14, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
TendingMess of thin cobwebs in the top corner of the bathroom window, one yellow spider a long-legged sac patrolling the bounds;rain that tends down with this soft hiss, a veil,its silken signature of earth-parchmenta blessing, temptation, wilderness;or snores that...
by Ivory Web | May 13, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The Editor Maxwell used to eat by swallowing greatbunching fistfuls of food,gargling thick spills of cooling gravy. Throat cluttered with cigar smoke –he would cough,putting an abrupt end toconversation.Punctuating peppered hacks with one dabof the finger –the...
by Ivory Web | May 11, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
SevenIf I lean back in my first-grade deskand expose my throat to the drop-ceilingand fluorescent lights then Becky McFarlandwill be along to tickle me as shemoves up and down the rows in the classroom.I bite mine off but she has fingernailsthat scratch my throat and...
by Ivory Web | May 10, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Sirenomelia Baby (foetal specimen, pathology museum) This little mermaid is jarred; feels the moon tugAt the kernel of fluid she floats in. SealedSo far from the sea, stranded in a tiny glass poolBeyond the highest tide, she holds hands...
by Ivory Web | May 9, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Two short pieces today – by Jo Overfield and Esther Poyer…Southend, SouthendSouthend, Southend, how does your garden grow?With concrete slabs and shopping centre domes,And Starbucks all in a row.* Jo Overfield is a writer, performance poet, podcast presenter and...
