Torsade Literary Space The Impresario: epilogue
The Impresario Epilogue His showman’s eye, a gift…he’d called it that Boasted how poignancy might mix with horror This he’d known to parse and measure What string to pluck for piety; then touch a purse for charity Urge strong men condescend Stare and dig in pockets Give sop to concupiscence He’d weighed […]
Billions: The Domestic Cat as Scapegoat
My Curious Reading Billions The Domestic Cat as Scapegoat A 2013 Telegraph (UK) headline, based on US reporting, reads in part: …deadly pets murder nearly 4 billion birds a year. Cats, they mean. Now, for one thing, murder is an inflammatory word. By the same token, human beings murder […]
The Impresario: part twenty-six
The Impresario Part Twenty-Six “You will appreciate my dilemma.” The Bishop says this to the wax-man He has been pleased to find this one have Latin For without the prompting of these matters grave Had of his own to doubt the Friar Gaspard Ought so to be relied on, with regard To […]
My Curious Reading: Planet Earth and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
My Curious Reading Planet Earth and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Dr. Underhill said, if we would destroy insects, we must preserve birds. Birds which run up the trunks of trees, like the Woodpeckers, are of especial benefit. They dig out the larvae of insects from the bark and devour it. A Cat-bird […]
The Impresario: part twenty-five
The Impresario Part Twenty-Five Three long blasts and a short to summon The captain of the Bishop’s horse The foot-guards lustily bash heads Gaspard’s men eagerly make arrest For every fine collected is a feather for their nest Tortu’s sturdy back unaided must draw the sledge The wax-man’s mass umbrellaed ’Neath a […]
The Impresario: part twenty-four
The Impresario Part Twenty-Four Behind leathern masks are the fighters’ faces hid To make livelier sport for the pleasure of the mob For to lose the sight of an eye, or have a nose cut off Cuts short the combat, those on tiptoes at the back Do not strain themselves to witness a […]