by Ivory Web | Jan 26, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
judy judy said she had a tattooof calvin and hobbeson each ass cheekand she had dirty blondehair and almond eyesthat looked at you, pierced youin a way that said you couldreally learn to understandeach other when you weren'ttoo busy fucking.when she spoke she...
by Ivory Web | Jan 24, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Call to prayers There’s no chance of me getting off the ship in Tunis as I look at the endless green embarkation cards in Arabic & as I gaze from the rails spot not only industrial metal towers and buildings and old tugs puffing black smoke but a serious...
by Ivory Web | Jan 23, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
My Life’s BackI was doing this before, steadily –And for my age and range, doing it wellCuddling you, molding you, making-up and dressing your contentsI was using you, not only as the butter for my bread But also as the point of my strength – the only meal that truly...
by Ivory Web | Jan 22, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Facebook He is pinningtiny rows of coloured heads– the secretly destroyed butterfliesof his heart. They face an empty bar stool,or turn their glances to the wind– locks of hair separating,twisting across absent-minded brows. And when they send him...
by Ivory Web | Jan 21, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
ALONE the other side of the bedwas empty, creased-freewhen I woke up again this morningforgetting you had to leavethat I have to do things bymyself, alone.it was already ten A.M.the sun was high but Ican't feel the heatonly the coldness of the nightsI tried...
by Ivory Web | Jan 16, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Ex-Lib, Otherwise As NewFor a penny online, plus postage, I bought a slender book by a former Poet Laureate. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974.The KC Public Library stamped the book “INV 1984” and, sometime later, “DISCARD.”The unmarked...
