Torsade Literary Space Eight: Duty (poetry series)
Duty “He is lauded for standing by his post” “Standing by at his post…” “Hmm…yes. Why say it? Are you happier about all this, for picking nits?” “Well, close by. Nearby. Remaining, anyway, as duty required. We might find…” “Might find…evidences, do you mean? Perhaps you aren’t fit for the work.” […]
Yoharie: Because Society (part three)
Yoharie Because Society (part three) Society hadn’t yet crafted the new rules. Or cancel yet. Society follows culture, and the culture stagnates. A woman can ask a man for a date, or a man she dates for his hand… Push on, stalwart feminist… But, Giarma thought, your place […]
My Blog Week: July 19 to July 25
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Misremembrance of Things Past I have a reason for writing opinion pieces. Being opinionated, of course, but also to counter that hazard creative people know, a […]
Eight: Honor (poetry series)
Honor First no one gets blamed, no one can You have honor enough to shoulder the gross mistakes of humankind You embody discarded virtues No one wants to drown or burn count seconds in a broken plane Om! (sob) Om! (sob) Om!…wait hemmed in by traffic The tsunami wave, the nuclear […]
Assorted Opinions: Stupid Loyalty
Assorted Opinions Stupid Loyalty Scenes from America’s protests, which began with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and continue as general dissent under the banner of Black Lives Matter, play onscreen like a surreal clown show, tragic and brutal, while the enforcement conduct often seems comedically […]
My Blog Week: July 12 to July 18
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Burned-Out Asset Civil Rights giant John Lewis died this week. Resistance Twitter (how we need Resistance Twitter these days!) got busy with this video, showing Florida […]
Eight: Enemies (poetry series)
Enemies The way I fall in step is oldest news But don’t ask me, the goods I got, it’s on authority I could quote you the bible…or, how bout? Tell you this, a little fairy story I know you’re after sympathy, they all are But listen to me You don’t have […]
Red God White Sun (poem)
Red God White Sun Back from a moment in prototypia she watches dawn, inked-over herself still as the unsafe hunger neutral before muscles beauty, remember she does not counsel the surviving to waste on it curtain tatters take…broken blinds…first warning, shush there is mud in early morning, gullying rain by dusk […]
The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part three) Wosogo gave me his two hands. I did not miss, in greeting him, the old man’s signal to the cook. Angry a bit with me, she had laid the table and ordered the lunch be spread…a tray of roast fowl, […]