My Blog Week: September 6 to September 12

Posted by ractrose on 13 Sep 2020 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                             A Word on the Week   The Tale of Associate Brown       The company that employs her has issued a directive. In the interest of gender-inclusivity, all employees are to be referred to by […]

Fall Sick (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 9 Sep 2020 in Art, Poems

      Fall Sick   Unlikely partners, the woman who owns the teacup shop and her neighbor Moses Harry the cronut baker Night and day, for contrast, these inquisitive elders At the seat of government, on someone’s behalf (a background billionaire?) corruption runs rife So it seems, for the murder rate, in an unvisited […]

Baron Haussmann’s Story of the Murderous Innkeepers

From Mémoires de baron Haussmann, 1890                 excerpted from a section called Excursions           These events take place in the 1830s, Haussmann on his way to his new job at Nérac, the post he held in our last story of his assisting George Sand. […]

My Blog Week: August 30 to September 5

Posted by ractrose on 6 Sep 2020 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                             A Word on the Week   Doom and Gloom         A thought occurs, that we keep seeing videos of violent police encounters, where the citizen finds him/herself in a wrong place and very […]

Storms and Fires: First Allied Forces

Posted by ractrose on 2 Sep 2020 in Art, Poems

      The Folly Allied Forces         Storms and Fires   The hearth, riddled so, complains The host has taken on a task he might have seen was never to be ledgered done Business as usual, for a time…? I don’t know, he answers the airless remark of the guest, That […]