by Ivory Web | Jan 4, 2011 | 12 days 2010
The Winter Outing of the Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, December 1870The ladies of the party are helped over the stileby whiskered botanists fond of a well turned ankle.Miss Taylor draws a notebook from her beaded reticuleand writes “The bunch of mistletoe was so...
by Ivory Web | Jan 3, 2011 | 12 days 2010
SnowWinter comes with the half-remembrance of rainand the sudden opening out of the city into wide white vistas of snow.A trail of footprints through unsullied whiteness,brings a memory of shuffling home frozen-footedwhere orange street light created pools and...
by Ivory Web | Jan 2, 2011 | 12 days 2010
Eight Maids-a-Milking Lord knows what happened whenhe double-clicked on ‘Ornamental Milkmaids.’He swears he only ordered one. On Monday, eight cows arrived. They clattered down the ramp and he signed for them ( I was out at the time) then herded...
by Ivory Web | Jan 1, 2011 | 12 days 2010
ResolutionHungover in the cow-fresh air, they leave their after-party friends to stuffing frosty cars with leftovers and sleeping children. She wishesthat they had a dog, or tartan travel rugs. The pub is mulled and mistletoed,ashine with polished warming pans...
by Ivory Web | Dec 31, 2010 | 12 days 2010
In Cold DimensionsI study the lives on a leaf: the little sleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions A strange way to see.A stranger’s way. Her garden is an exhibitionwith lit rooms, masterpieces,and her rooms are parterres;the shape and size of their...
by Ivory Web | Dec 30, 2010 | 12 days 2010
Living YuleI was there, when men squatted on haunches
to chip flint and weave webs of belief
from seasons and circles of death and growth.
The stink of boar-grease stiffening my braid
and blue whorls whispering under my skin
offered hope that darkness could end.I...
