by Ivory Web | Apr 19, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The Base Macian TO MAKE: a verb, from the base macian meaning “fitting” in Old English; related to match; past: made. A good old thing resulting in an object one could use. A table, a teething ring, the dinner, a pair of shoes. POEM: a noun. Partakes of the...
by Ivory Web | Apr 18, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
One form of prose writing we are always on the lookout for is reportage – vignettes of doses of real life – or creative non-fiction as it is sometimes termed. Here's a new piece by Rachel Henwood and 'yes' the restaurant featured in this story really does...
by Ivory Web | Apr 17, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
My ghosts “Maybe you should write about your ghosts,” my husband suggests. He’s found me staring at a blank page again. I know what Paul is talking about. We’ve had that conversation before. Yet, they are not at all like the translucent, floating figures in...
by Ivory Web | Apr 16, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
night comes oni)a couple of things I’m sure of:the sea, green with envy for the smoothnessof the skythe bulb of stubble you’d missed that morningbut as for why I came?or why I thought you’d asked me?I blame the sea;the waves seem broad enough to take the weight of...
by Ivory Web | Apr 15, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
To Map a Man The transparent mapping of a manrequires a thin slice of him on coated film along with a translucent strip of his energy activity with all of its sides, all aspects of the man included. Put his thin coat, almost transparent,across the...
by Ivory Web | Apr 13, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
A Bed and Breakfast in HellI thought it mightSpice things up a bit if I took the new fellato a bed and breakfastand he said don’t get your hopes upI’m a lot like Billy Bob Thornton I have that phobia ofold furniture and antiques, what’s that called againand I said I...
