Torsade Literary Space The Totem-Maker: Use for Use (part one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six Use for Use (part one) The gods that ruled this country, and this strange prison of the tollhouse, said nothing to me. They sent snow, and I could hardly guess whether it were a gift of beauty, or a slow, suffocating torture. It was beauty to […]
Spread Your Arms (poem)
Spread Your Arms You’ll go out on a monitor Hiccupping with your backbone wishing for a final arch. Your chest cavity slumbers uninspired Ten nervous snacks swallowed in the last hour Your global gut draws its own gravity “What goes on?” a staffer asks The feeling is bubbly like root beer […]
The Impresario (part seventeen)
The Impresario Part Seventeen “How long ago,” the seer begins “Though not so many days have passed And yet, how long ago it seems…” The Dauphin interrupts. “Vraiment! For a great, tedious time, Pierre, you have been talking. See, Tortu has gone to sleep!” “My old master, him I’d told you […]
My Blog Week: November 17 to November 23
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Hearings and Seeings Republicans seem to have picked up a couple of offensive strategies via the brain trust that brought us, this week, the Adult Playground. […]
The Impresario (part sixteen)
The Impresario Part Sixteen “The gatekeeper, then, must be sweetened with a bribe For such a one may at any time be called aside He cannot leave a fire rage or fainting lady lie So, make fair claim to’ve been about his duties… That, Pierre, is what you mean to say.” […]
Bride to Be (part eight)
Bride to Be (part eight) I dismounted This tree that marked the knoll had no known like her heart agape at the root, her wood aged white polished to gloss by the antler of the stag the bark of her burnt and lightning stripped the curious leaves we ladies pressed on […]
My Blog Week: November 10 to November 16
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Money Vortex We don’t really know what happens. Forbes tallies up 607 American billionaires for the year 2018, with a gain of 21 new stratum […]
Assorted Opinions: They
Assorted Opinions They 2020 seems a bad time for the Democrats to become the party of pronouns. History shows, of course, that they can pull it off, this snatching of defeat from the jaws of victory… And liberal forces appear to be gathering towards a […]