by Ivory Web | Feb 3, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
This is another first for Ink Sweat & Tears, as we have a poem by regular IS&T contributor Helen Pletts, that she read at last year's annual Poetry on the Lake festival in Orta, Italy, complete with a translation into Italian by Gabriel Griffin. This poem...
by Ivory Web | Feb 2, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The VisitorI wake with the early morning sunlight warming my face to see two lumpy stumps are protruding from my lower body.I sit up on the white sand to study them. They are a mottled pink colour with blue lines running under the skin like the veins in my arms. I...
by Ivory Web | Feb 1, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
After the Deluge The third day: sky lightens;daylight dries her eyes.A world of creaturescreeps out from under,glossy-wet and new:big-winged butterflies;quick-stepping bugs;caterpillars, bursting-bright;a play-room paletteof blues and yellows,ocean and emerald...
by Ivory Web | Jan 30, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Old Dear Hayley at the checkout looks through you. Old Dear.Stodgy brown shirt barely concealing your lumpiness.Past your sell-by date, a package not worth opening.Recoils at the age spots on your crinkly hands as you offera white loaf, tin of baked beans...
by Ivory Web | Jan 29, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
A Thin Fox a thin fox, hard as nails,thin, arthritic, rheumatic,septic eruptions on sore feet,keen nose and sorry bag of effluvium and entrailsup for the erectile, hard frost, somewhere to go, lakeside path, through snowdrop, primrose,daffodil, an early...
by Ivory Web | Jan 27, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
THE NEIGHBORShe pedals whenshe could coast–bingo, potluck,food bank volunteer.Stopping by our house,she recites heritinerary for the day –cheeks rouged –had muesli, no doubt,for breakfast.We turn the burnerdown low –politely listen –try to keepthe guilty bacon...
