by Ivory Web | Apr 6, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The difference between boys and girlsThe girls run ahead;Leaping gazelles,Across the road and they’re off,Looking eighteen but probably thirteen.The boys drag behind;Unruly seagulls,Jostling and jibbing each other,Looking ten but probably thirteen,The tallest boy...
by Ivory Web | Apr 5, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
CollisionThey lift me out from the wreckage, slowly floating in and out of the leavening.I sit with my back to the wall, sun just beginning to warm. Somewhere behind me, the sea slipsfearless into zero hour: a long glass emptied and rinsed of its dregs. Not a...
by Ivory Web | Apr 3, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Slow DownI remember it nowit wasn’t Pink Floydit was Sabbath you enjoyedwhen I mentioned it,when I mentioned Ozzy at that concert of his in Wembley& you played it loudlyas we lay backon your blue leather ‘shagging sofa’the one with a hole in itsmoking a spliffthe...
by Ivory Web | Apr 2, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Small-Screen Romancefor P.C.Saturday nights we’d talk dirty, your wordsdingy, double-edged, every third onestanding in for sex and fury – come the fuck in,you Oxbridge twat, you will fuckingsee me again – feeding each other expletivesthat burst on the tongue like...
by Ivory Web | Apr 1, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Living Shadows The flames burned high, lending a tremulous luminescence to the paper screen. On our side all was darkness. My baby sister’s hand was hot in mine; she drew comfort from my soon-to-be-married status, which banished monsters as surely...
by Ivory Web | Mar 31, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Fairy Tales In your telling of it, that farm cottageheld all the detailed charmof a painting – the sun purringagainst its white walls, its half-dooropening onto a yard of hens, anda tractor standing noble in its red coat. But touch the paint and it...
