Torsade Literary Space La Catastrophe de la Martinique: forty-one
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (forty-one) Among the Experts XXVI A Guardian of Sanitary Regulations Protests All Down the Line A man who truly is no longer content, not at all, with the governmental and administrative […]
Sum of (poem)
Sum of Long patience, the sort a society of resurrectionists Calls its like-to-like decode of Low resonance A Plan, cryptographical embed, that which Sifts the dead-weight from the Superman A blat from the alpenhorn In figure Reverbs of duty-bound orders, secret Errants who have stood Before the longbow, and sacrificed the ear […]
Side of Life (poem)
Side of Life A stranger draws a curtain Of stories across the stage his sex is judged To be male At length there is no hiding The thoughts of the silent dying captured In the act of uncorking the bottle The reasons people think Bent over gallon jugs decanting Cup by cup […]
My Blog Week: Jan 20 to Jan 26
All the Latest from Torsade! The week began with a poem, “One Day the Rest”. In Tuesday’s Sequence of Events, “The Heron’s Foot” part two, Freda gets shuttled to a lecture and into a small job for a stranger. Wednesday, another […]
Roscoe Bevington: Tenth Tattersby
The Folly Tattersby Roscoe Bevington I feel cheated. Yes, cheated, in a profound and unexpected way You won’t like crediting Roscoe Bevington with profundity Not least because, educated as you’ve been You no doubt cherish philosophy as franchise Don’t much take to it, a wrong’un like myself Waxing Aristotelian on […]
Celebrated (part eight)
Novella Celebrated (part eight) She stirred. He said, “Hold it!” And: “Here. I’ll trade places with you.” He plucked at the zipper of her open parka, squeezing past. Tom wore a jeans jacket, his hands fairly numb. He brought the Kodak’s viewer to his eyeball, dropped the knapsack to […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: forty
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (forty) XXV A conversation with former deputy M. Duquesnay An explanation of the phenomenon. And again, politics… M. Duquesnay is the deputy not reelected from Fort-de-France. He did not give me details on […]
One Day the Rest (poem)
One Day the Rest You’ve reached that head-scratching stall A sporting set of wheels is trundling, but Leggy and eggy in conception, you ratchet off Your grace and rhythm paced, more or less Like a flat tire’s Ba-whump ba-whump And if you could die, you would die to a tune Your steps […]
My Blog Week: Jan 13 to Jan 19
All the latest from Torsade! This week began with a poem, “Comfortingly”; then, on Tuesday, the latest Sequence of Events, in which Freda tries to see Martin and gets an odd sense of background activities afoot. Wednesday, “Not Wanted Here”, the […]
Loaded Language (poem)
Loaded Language The housing of Dillard’s vital organs A compress wrapped to resist untightening Larded arteries under dress clothes Slick heels on his buckled shoes Cocked in a goatskin executive chair His limbs clench at the camera’s disclosure Despite he kicks in feeling rancor He shoots from the situation room table Remounts […]