by Ivory Web | Dec 5, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
THE MEDUSA EFFECTSeduced by our past we root beneath cliffs for track-ways and traces, fossilised dung.Mostly intact with ink-sac in placeThis was a squid long ago.Even soft inner parts turn into stone.X rays show fibres are white.An exhibit incised from its zone in...
by Ivory Web | Dec 4, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
my neighbor my neighboristhe perfectneighbor. she runsthe neighborhood watch. her yardis always mowed,her flowersare always in bloom. she greets everyonewith a smile. she sitson her porch andknows everythingthat goes on. she walks her...
by Ivory Web | Dec 2, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
The Umbrella of the Future Sarah finds the clicker, turns on the TV, sips her tea, waits. Cold mornings lately, the little Sony seems sluggish, slow to wake. Sarah hopes it’s not dying, hopes this is just a winter thing. Imagines a small black...
by Ivory Web | Dec 1, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Stargazing in December Orion topples sidelong over my neighbor's roof. The cold envelops me in its dream of total absorption. Cell by cell I resist the stars and their crude superstitions, though centuries of astrologers pant like bread in the...
by Ivory Web | Nov 28, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
REUNION Those old school dinners,the greasy mince, the pitchers of weak teahave been transmuted into beef,red wine tonight.The lives that run betweenare beads strung out along a chain of dayswhich we investigate with nervous fingers. ~ ~ ~ ~...
by Ivory Web | Nov 27, 2008 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Here's the first of our new podcast series. The poem is by regular IS&T contributor Helen Pletts and was recorded in the Czech Republic, where she now lives. So, well done Helen for not only coping with the recording technology – but managing it in Czech....
