by Ivory Web | Mar 30, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
I understand the concept of synchronicity – I mean my favourite movies are always brought up in my favourite TV shows. That means I’m doing something right, right? Today I ate more pasta than any human has ever eaten. 2 sittings of cheesy goodness and now I’m...
by Ivory Web | Mar 28, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Sunday Afternoon Conjuring Our memories, black backwash,buckle me this afternoon, my silent discourse with youdarkens the day.I shove you within the holes of my bones,but you slip out, and I’m trapped inour universe that no longer exists. I can’tchew off a foot, rip...
by Ivory Web | Mar 28, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
One of the more fascinating aspects of the poetry scene – and one of the original motivations for setting up Ink Sweat & Tears in the first place – is that hazy borderline between poetry and prose, when poetry becomes prose poetry… or is it literary flash...
by Ivory Web | Mar 27, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
March Train Journey, Norfolk Some daffodils left looking at each other. A grouse, sidling along trying to avoid its destiny, overdressed in the fields with the amazing white collar and the bright red suit, blue tie. A lolloping hare dashing off across a wide...
by Ivory Web | Mar 25, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Earlier this week there was a documentary shown on UK TV about King Edward VII. By coincidence, regular IS&T contributor Geoff Stevens has submitted a poem inspired by one King Edward's more infamous social put-downs – when he saw Lord Harris in a brown bowler...
by Ivory Web | Mar 24, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Hina MatsuriThe morning after the festival,a sigh stole through the alcovewhere the doll altar stood.In the pavilion, the tiny lordbowed his head, a fist curled at his side,a hand upon his lady's shoulder.She dried her eyeswith a trailing sleeve, her moutha red...
