Torsade Literary Space Boat Rentals (poem)
Boat Rentals She tilts up a shutter Her cart is cereal-box proportioned Plywood corners puff like biscuits Coated flyspecks score like nail tips She issues metal tokens Her hair Grey with a cast of butter Lanking it iridescent like an abalone The bones say pretty met misfortune Hours of commerce […]
The Invisible Hand: Inimical (episode nine)
Inimical Chapter 4 The Invisible Hand (episode nine) “We must make provision for the winter,” said the cat, “or we shall suffer hunger. And you, little mouse, must not stir out, or you will be caught in a trap.” The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership […]
My Blog Week: Jan 21 to Jan 27
All the Latest from Torsade! Sunday’s A Figure from the Common Lot: Passage (part one), Honoré has a trying train ride to Compiègne; under new pressures, he comes to doubt Broughton’s good will. In the first Inimical of the week, from “Turning […]
Passage: part two
A Figure from the Common Lot Passage (two) Before he’d quite got himself turned, he saw her vanish. He began to fall behind, his way obtruded, not by strollers, but by the wooden hand-grips of delivery carts, projecting along the way at reckless angles. She had got well ahead, and was […]
A Small Exchange (poem)
A Small Exchange A small exchange between the gutter and the feet Wet hosiery and someone letting off corrosive mirth And so having blocks to go She felt uncondoled I mourn with you among strangers Waiting for a split head to hiss out the steam That boils it The curiosity of this fall […]
Turning the Corner: Inimical (episode eight)
Inimical Chapter 3 Turning the Corner (episode eight) “So she flings the earring away, seeing him, and Mr. Rousseau jumps, seeing her, and knocks the table over, and the mink stole spills out. Isobel asks him if he’s trying to be funny. He says, ‘I never try to be funny. So […]
Song of Trout: Eighth Pale Knight
The Folly The Legend of the Pale Knight Song of Trout There is no harm in others underestimating one’s fortitude Matthew Piers Trout has reason to be sure of it Sure as he’d known, from school days, loneliness mutate into priestly hauteur Mysteries performed behind the darkroom door Life given […]
A Torsade Triolet
Hi, there! Table of Selected Contents Announcements The Cartoon House A Figure from the Common Lot Inimical The Impresario The Folly