by Ivory Web | Jul 9, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Simple Things I say goodbye to simple things like trees in autumn peel their leaves. Melancholy is the sad slow death of simple things that ache. Stay for a while, beneath my noontime sun. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Gothed Tina painted my lips black,paleness on...
by Ivory Web | Jul 8, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
SnowflakeIn springLast snowflake fallsTemperature is risingIf it knew how long it lasts,why bother?~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Nothing to DoSummerAs the world burns,Nothing else to do, butStep into liquid cool wavesAnd swim.• Michael Lee Johnson is an Illinois-based poet and...
by Ivory Web | Jul 7, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Houndstooth HatI am going to wear the houndstooth hatyou gave me at the airport when I thinkof the night we went to eat Chinese foodwith my brother and I drove my ex-boyfriend's van and you were shockedand appalled at how fake and dark thatwoman's tan was.I am...
by Ivory Web | Jul 4, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Should Amy Winehouse ever stay in a caravan by the seaAfter looking into the pan of a Dudley Diplomat,Amy heads, barefoot,for the shore;past Rajah, centre stageat the Animalarium;his spots stagnant in the big-cat cage.On the sand she takes a boy’s kite:starstruck, he...
by Ivory Web | Jul 2, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Agency WorkersWe sit on New York-style chairs,stainless steel on cloudgrey carpet.Here in the heat and lightis our morning's ration of luxuryas the register fills up. Each namea strengthening of each, conspirators together,muffled from the cold.Another working...
by Ivory Web | Jun 30, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
A Gemini Thing It’s a Gemini thingMy secret worldOpposites attract yin and yangAngel devil lecher priestEach made more by the other’s beingHooded serpent fur and fangs writheIn deadly dance knowing no other wayNo mercy for second placeHungry pack snorting steam...
