Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: April 21 to April 27
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week This one began and ended with news of terrorist attacks on places of worship. The bombings in Sri Lanka are attributed to a nationalist splinter group (National Thowheed Jamath). The California synagogue […]
Sinister: Seventh Pale Knight
The Folly The Legend of the Pale Knight Sinister Reputation, for those into whose veins, Embarrassment taps easily and oft, Becrimsoning the cheek, that turns aside in haste; And cutting cruelly like a two-edged sword— Though by a most humble squire raised What’s all this? Roscoe demands, […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: fifty-three
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (fifty-three) XXXV With Admiral Servan An explanation of the phenomenon. The ideas of the admiral on the future of Martinique. An order of the day. The army and the population. Admiral Servan […]
My Blog Week: April 14 to April 20
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week At first, the sight of Notre Dame in flames was horrible, as actual fires are (we get movie images in our minds, and movie infernos don’t incandesce like that, billow those massive, sky-filling […]
The Spectre Knows: Sixth Pale Knight
The Folly The Legend of the Pale Knight The Spectre Knows ‘Then further,’ says the guest, ‘we are not talking about intuition. If a railwayman observe that passengers are in the habit of jumping from the cars before the train comes to a halt, he may say, ‘There […]
Whalesong (poem)
Whalesong Barely attending Cicadas rising percussively sieving through an open window screen How redeemed by gentle warmth the room is once again in summer Resolving from a fog that now and then allows a gift Fixed in memory to scratch at the spidering trail where the smell of blades furrows in […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: fifty-two
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (fifty-two) I have had the pleasure of seeing him several times. And I have reckoned the crushing labor that was his to accomplish, since as we say in the navy [Hess was a Navy medic], first things first.* It is […]
Who Owns This House: Second Battle Stations
The Folly Battle Stations Who Owns This House This room, its walls are painted yellow They call it that, the Yellow Room The corner cabinet…no plane of it Quite fits, the hinges pull My dear, you smile, but I feel the cabinet matters And he will not have […]
My Blog Week: April 7 to April 13
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week We’ve had lots of speculation about the American president’s rambling, choppy habits of speech. Commentators often counter that armchair diagnoses aren’t fair. True. We’ll expect, nonetheless, a heckload of speculation on the […]