by Ivory Web | Mar 4, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
HotSmall suns, they bring the lightof Seville into my kitchen.Cut and slice them into moltenpieces, douse the glow, infusion. Stir them into mermeladaa pan of orange volcanosweet and tart as a moorish kiss.In the dark days of the year’sturn, I cook the colour of...
by Ivory Web | Mar 3, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
AftershowThe fire of the show cools to content with the soft hum of the radioThe headlights will guide us home to our cold, hushed abodeYou asleep and me alone with the road and the stars and the things I have yet to become* Sarah Louise is a singer/songwriter who...
by Ivory Web | Mar 2, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Lovethey weresitting ata tabletoo smallfor theirmeals, tooclose togetherat a tabletoo small.she said, 'theonly waywe can lose,the onlyway we can lose this game is if one of us tries to win.'* koe whitton-williams lives in New York with his family and writes on...
by Ivory Web | Mar 1, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Appropriately enough after the Winter Olympics, we start with an ice-hockey themed poem…WE WILL ROCK puck drops sticks hackrun of bladesthud on boards flick of stick long pass ...
by Ivory Web | Feb 27, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
MermaidsDown on the nudist beach –Holding hands.Drumming up stories,Lies and fantasiesOf some neat country,Some, arcane hemisphereYou are hoping to take me toLate summer,When the air is fresherAnd the sea is more clearAnd the mermaids appear,In their dozens,Not far...
by Ivory Web | Feb 25, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Atlas of SignsFrom the valleypeople traveled,the bones of cattle staked like a gate.I sought the acerbic shadeof the manchineel treewhere sand cliffs dissolve into tideslike bronze idols or collapsing horses.The shadow of a frigatebird armorsmy already guarded...
