Torsade Literary Space Benevolence (poem)
Benevolence Off to beg off to ask a promise be remembered rifle charity clothes and find wearable estates of men and women, botheration… scoffing rid of Grandma’s stupid things (amounts to spending, not inheriting) senescent children shooting cheating sidelongs This or that “worth something” hmm? (ooh hoo) in vintage, maybe a dollar […]
Overcast (poem)
Overcast Self-abnegation hunting insects All chemistry or all dispassion not dissected by ego and asked to answer The tailored monument to Jones or Brown or Miller We can’t feel surprised What, Mr. Jones, is atonement What, Ms. Brown, do you call repentance How, Miller, do you ask forgiveness You needed training…if your […]
My Blog Week: February 16 to February 22
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Phobia In times past, when the chief source of news in America was the three networks and PBS, I had a complaint. Say, for the sake […]
The Totem-Maker: The Recalcitrant One (part four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Seven The Recalcitrant One (part four) He stood holding a Seed under the window’s light. Two hollows like eyes seemed to glint aware, each with its dot of white. The totem had woken in itself this visage, by charm or wickedness. “Tell me your story.” “They are […]
Wonderfully Made (poem)
Wonderfully Made The psalmist makes good report of himself God sighs that the trick of vision could not be worked When the heavy-brained article came to move and apprehend He had hoped praise, in parlance, would mean humility But what do things mean? It has feet to carry it here and there […]
Turtle Island (part four)
Turtle Island iv. Great movements of the Banda Arc Have stirred this little-reckoned peak The Corinth for a contrary tide Carried helpless and far asea Sunset across a morning sky A column boils heaven-high An avalanche shoreward blanketing Treetops engulfing, all left whited A mainsail torn from the mast…this cloud Lays […]