Torsade Literary Space Chiswick 1934: Second German Spy
The Folly The German Spy Chiswick 1934 This area, where an up-and-comer rubs shoulders With the fraying shawl of gentility A lineage forged in lint And where underground commuters spot oddity Familiarly in circled eyes And fierce vampiric lights That pudding-skinned visages blanch into a sinister loneliness […]
Cartoon Stories: Side Glances
Cartoon Stories Side Glances Various takes on cultural commonplaces. How’s the Look. Plaids were almost making a comeback… Check It Out. To make this one, I had to find where I had a check to copy from. Self-Confidence Is Key. The perfect 80s […]
My Blog Week: April 5 to April 11
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Race Is, or Appears to Be, On Bernie Sanders has ended his campaign. A sexual assault accuser for Biden was up someone’s sleeve (her own, […]
Eight: Mystical (poetry series)
Mystical A tribute to your thoughts Brother Nostrazerof**k The gift of seeing first is yours That tweet you called it Months ago when others snored Coincidence is the crossing Of a tool’s path with the genius Groove laid down by his new master You wake in the mornings Tapped on […]
Perhaps a Pair of Eyes: First German Spy
The Folly The German Spy Perhaps a Pair of Eyes Can a man in Tattersby’s estate Plant his feet and lift the standard Do we contemplate to name this tidal movement (a little shaver chipped from the block of ancient manners) The Modern Chivalry Dames to entertain […]
Boat Rentals (poem)
Boat Rentals She tilts up a shutter Her cart is cereal-box proportioned Plywood corners puff like biscuits Coated flyspecks score like nail tips She issues metal tokens Her hair Grey with a cast of butter Lanking it iridescent like an abalone The bones say pretty met misfortune Hours of […]
Cartoon Stories: More from the Idea File
Cartoon Stories More from the Idea File Cartoons are sight gags, basically (unless they’re walk-and-talk strips, as much of Calvin and Hobbes). Below, like last week, whimsy, with a mini-sitcom, and a touch of existentialism. Lobbying for a Special Interest. Who wouldn’t cheer the fighting spirit of the poor lobster […]
My Blog Week: March 29 to April 4
All the Latest from Torsade! News! I’m up to the last couple of passages, soon to have finished the first draft…in short, I’ll be posting a Southern Gothic ghost story for you, in the summertime. Meanwhile, above, art for The Mirrors, […]
Eight: Milieu (poetry series)
Milieu You like and you don’t like Thin chances but first to subtract aplomb A fellow’s duty done Subtract an unobstructed view and brace Like Dr. Bellows dressed In oilskins, your slumbering other self Can’t help but help Be national interviewee miked and lensed Smooth criminal’s aileron roll on hurricane winds […]