Torsade Literary Space La Catastrophe de la Martinique: fifty-eight
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (fifty-eight) And I come again to M. le sénateur Knight. He has lost one hundred and four members of his family, and all his belongings, all his fortune (save the 125,000 francs given him by the Bank), but, he says, this personal […]
Celebrated (part fifteen)
Novella Celebrated (part fifteen) “You wrote a nice piece about my mother.” That had been her comment going up, just before the tricky edge past an RV coming down, that had silenced them. “I’ll have to look at that, back at the house. I forget […]
First to Come Ashore (poem)
First to Come Ashore Betrayal and surprise are reasonable things Now we live on Ocean in floating boils of aluminum Open hatch, rope in on Drop Days inflatable rings Netted centers packed, and water Better to wash with and drink (outside stuff desalinated, never wholly uncontaminated) Crackers and raisins in tight six-day […]
My Blog Week: May 19 to May 25
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Deadly Queue The death toll on Everest this year is among the highest recorded, ten victims. The nation of Nepal has issued about 380 permits for the season, reportedly each costing […]
Adventures in Research: Mystery at Sea
My Curious Reading Adventures in Research Mystery at Sea My great-grandmother Barker, above, at sixteen, and probably in the 1940s, born Clara Wilda Giles, in Eldorado, Illinois, comes from a family line not easy to trace. Her father was William Lafayette Giles, buried in Saline County, […]
Dum-dum (poem)
Dum-dum What the assembly wants to understand Everyone we are on page three hundred sixty-four The hour is near the break Watch through years of circling the outerbelt Neighborhoods go down once the charred shape of a wing shorn Plane was a moment worth eulogizing stamped On the split-levels of a small […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: fifty-seven
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (fifty-seven) XXXVI Senator Knight Again I made the return crossing in the company of M. le sénateur Knight. I have mentioned already, in the course of this volume, some of the “political views” […]
Yoharie: Neverers (part two)
Yoharie Neverers (part two) Here was the special vocabulary. The character, by the author, had not been made male or female. Hearty debate in the World, did Southey have a preference, did he/she plant clues, were phrases such as “…an ex-slave, bearing his mark…”, evidentiary, or only grammatical, […]
The Totem-Maker: Winter Alone (part six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five Winter Alone (part six) I had slept at my first home in profoundest silence…fairly it might be said, that of the grave. Childhood dreams did not meander here from sound to sound, weaving a story of footsteps, caterwauling, morning birdsong; rather mine, I could now […]