by Ivory Web | Aug 13, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
Sunflower Seeds Everyone in Lorca knows Jose Joaquim. He stands in the bar, happy among his laughing posse. This place, this ancient Spanish town of golden stone, where he was born and where he will die, is his world. He knows and wants no other. He has taught half...
by Ivory Web | Aug 7, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
This is one of those poems that makes me go “Damn, I wish I could write like that” by our favourite Beat Generation survivor A.D. Winans…LETTING GOYou were Harpo Marx without a harpYou were Sally Rand without your burlesque fanYou were a slow funeral...
by Ivory Web | Aug 6, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
Free to do as I wantA year ago I burnt the listof all the things my parents, The Lawand The Bible forbade.Released, I inhaled fresh thoughtsand indulged in eating puddingin bed, three times before dinner,But the kids next door, knockedon my door, grinning like...
by Ivory Web | Aug 4, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
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by Ivory Web | Jul 29, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
SELF-INVESTIGATIONINTRUSIVE & OTHERWISEThickening pan of beef stew hallucinationsbrain-clouded thermal mudspluttering to let methane outa bulb in bakelite holderhung from a faulty fleximmersed in its stickinessand glowering like a cyclopswhile winking recognition...
by Ivory Web | Jul 27, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
In these two poems, Beat Generation survivor A.D. Winans explains why he is giving up on certain things…GIVING UP ORGANIZATIONS The one thing I notice about my formerCOSMEP friendsIs that they haven't changed over the decadesThey still publish and have...
