Torsade Literary Space The Impresario (part thirteen)
The Impresario Part Thirteen Pierre, rocking back, raises his flask with a solemn, studied lack of impudence (although the features of his face tend against him) The baron, he notes, has an arrogant flare of nostril and curl of upper lip, yet he does not fully sneer in spurning this. Saying […]
Bride to Be (part five)
Bride to Be (part five) Alderic. Do I not know the name? Is he that man Tills yon spit of land, so thin and barren Trades in horses… Have a care, young daughter. Vestal to a carven goddess These our conquerors will have you cloistered There your nose may humbly point, […]
My Blog Week: October 20 to October 26
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Orangefinger I will tell a story on myself. Once upon a time, I used my middle finger to push an elevator button. I step right up front […]
Abdication (poem)
Abdication Your eyes stung and crusted You lie unmoving A sibyl garnering predictions vaporing from sewer grates With her liberality of diction She baits you Bile of the nation Abdication Like a starfish ambulating Your stomach leaves the nest to feed A seesawing cindered feather floats Liver and spine-meat from […]
The Totem-Maker: Winter Alone (part thirteen)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five Winter Alone (part thirteen) I approach the place I was put ashore…the place where my fortunes changed, and I understood that to the Prince I was slave after all. Or disregarded by him, thought without value, for I had not yet passed a test he […]
Frédéric Boutet: The Ghost of M. Imberger (part four)
Frédéric Boutet The Ghost of M. Imberger (part four) “They say to me that you are an intelligent man, sure and adept, and I believe it,” he said, when we were alone. “Listen to me. I returned yesterday from a long […]
The Impresario (part twelve)
The Impresario Part Twelve The prisoner’s advocate begins to feel himself followed It seems to him a certainty the footpad is that fellow Who gives his name in fraudulent humility as Pierre “Only that.” And loiters round the guardhouse. The advocate turns on a heel, making the jailer’s victualer Behind him stagger, […]
Bride to Be (part four)
Bride to Be (four) But you say a riddle. Well, I know but little, I am ashamed I have seen twenty winters, nearly…and My father and my brothers buried Where I cannot pray upon their tomb Lady Tamarilde, how…? His ways grew with these falterings Dear to me, confiding and unsure […]
My Blog Week: October 13 to October 19
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Wacky-Ackies (Accusations, that is) Hillary Clinton this week dropped the phrase “Russian asset”, in speaking of feckless Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Many of her remarks were aimed […]