by Ivory Web | Apr 15, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Another Poem About More of the Samethe words riseabove the coffeesmells and softmusic like anantiseptic cloudand the wordsrise from a collectionof women dressedin black sweaters blackpants black boots andthey all look the samebut differentand their cars out front,ski...
by Ivory Web | Apr 14, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Shroedinger's CatThe radio instructed meI should hold a minutes silencefor something thatmight have happened.Something that could have been.No certainty, more allegationsthan bones, but still the countrywas to fall silent, for somethingthat might have happened.I...
by Ivory Web | Apr 11, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Of Dates and Fossils, Dinners and Meadows Avuncular guards at every door, long-winded speeches highlighting large-breasted, small-waisted heroines – paper cutouts for each occasion. Bouncers exit from a nearby bar. Patrons gambol on a...
by Ivory Web | Apr 10, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Sentimental Education In a coffee shop in Amherst, we let the breath of students envelope us. Their faddish clothes threaten like documents held by a blackmailer, their faces raw and plain as...
by Ivory Web | Apr 9, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
YANG CHU’S POEMS 184I cannot trust her,I cannotDistrust her.Trust and distrustAre words,Mere empty words,Trust and distrustDoes not applyTo what exists between us.Does not fit,Does not have meanings,Does not have signifieds.Therefore, I cannot trust her,I cannot...
by Ivory Web | Apr 8, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
RecessThat clamouring hourin the yard where the standpiperose out of cementis glued in a cavitybehind my eyeseven now.When, between the cow pastureon the east sideand the linked fence to the west,all meaning and order was contained:We would gallop the perimeter,as...
