Torsade Literary Space Turtle Island (part four)
Turtle Island iv. Great movements of the Banda Arc Have stirred this little-reckoned peak The Corinth for a contrary tide Carried helpless and far asea Sunset across a morning sky A column boils heaven-high An avalanche shoreward blanketing Treetops engulfing, all left whited A mainsail torn from the mast…this cloud Lays […]
My Blog Week: February 9 to February 15
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Of Primary Concern A curious thing about the Democratic primary/caucuses. Bernie Sanders has been winning the popular vote. (He’ll probably lose to Biden in South […]
The Totem-Maker: The Recalcitrant One (part three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Seven The Recalcitrant One (part three) His society was nine days the thorn in my side. Under his eye that first night I put away the coins, shaking them into a chest, a disposition I mistrusted. Their embossments and metals were not the same…logic suggested different meanings. […]
A Body Surfaces: Eighth Battle Stations
The Folly Battle Stations A Body Surfaces Adamson discovers that a lifetime of choler Well-trodden ways from whiffs of cheek and bother To the full-blown stack of outrage Sackings, threats of action Can’t well prepare one for enormity akin To a magazine’s explosion ‘No one at home! […]
Yoharie: What It Takes to Fly (part four)
Yoharie What It Takes to Fly (part four) So, of all possible things for a birthday treat, big greasy grilled burgers, raspberry coffees topped with mounds of whipped cream, she craved gas station food. Not per se…a grocery fine, and if she found one sooner, she’d grab her list. […]
My Blog Week: February 2 to February 8
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Hustling and Bustling First, another entry in Ways America’s Dictatorship Resembles Maoism. A slogan* of China’s slaughtering era was, “Wrongly killing a hundred people is […]
The Leopard (poem)
The Leopard Wanted to invoke a god who births words That in upheaval spit the razor-glass of life Erode and thus create the bed Where the first rooted thing Rose against the maelstrom And when a calm fell floating Iron filleted into ash Flung high to the cold revolution Down with […]