Torsade Literary Space 
Yoharie: Give and Take (part three)
Yoharie Give and Take (part three) Divorce…which was the issue… Kate’s first thought was of Mat, the house. The living room gym stripped…no yard sale so neighbors could get a shot at the equipment. The garage semi-gutted. Semi-restored, maybe, to intended use, missing the sectional and flokati, still […]
Celebrated (part twenty-one)
Celebrated (part twenty-one) She had an awareness of herself, arguing at Tom with all she’d never… All Ian had never given her the chance— All she had turned over in her mind through forty years of explaining to him, making him accept her point, in […]
Goods for Love (poem)
Goods for Love On the midden heap Above the flood still inundated If you substituted Goods for love Your heart speaking through Some accident of neurofibre What chance angle or what play of light refracting A carbohydrate rush Acting on your mood They iridesce and their rims Have a soft […]
Even Heard (poem)
Even Heard Nothing recently radio silence almost a fig leaf of the past Your old friend with his bags of heirloom seeds Took them to the farmer’s market, Sharpied a sign saying FREE Bought tickets on the very plane they grounded for yawing side-to-side, nose up, nose down Stricken passengers allowed […]
The Minister of Inaction (poem)
The Minister of Inaction The minister of inaction Keeps perch en pointe, soft chamois slippers toe the orb That bald pate of Oz, antiquity’s ruler-deity Admired with gentle pity by explorers Dust devil sands have scoured him to ivory Your hope in stealing close to shelter from the dreary sun Curled […]
Quid pro fauxbia (poem)
Quid pro fauxbia The fear of human society Quid pro fauxbia Lye over the discarded fruit Heaped in fermenting waste And burn or atomize Disrupt the life cycle of the fly Maggots thrive in their maggotry so have no reason To care that their own days are numbered Barbed edged rain […]
My Blog Week: January 31 to February 6
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Resources Plastic is a problem. Manufacturers gather in huge amounts of raw materials, that suppliers create for them into packaging. And manufacturers spend a lot on […]
Celebrated (part twenty)
Celebrated (part twenty) She’d dispatched Hector to coastal New Jersey, a tent auction he spots advertised. Emboldened, in the way being someone other than yourself allows, Hector works the room. And with a vague idea he’s heard of Harold Carter, one of the dealers […]
Distract Us (poem)
Distract Us She hadn’t got the chance to finish her story, the corner fire let, if gas might do no worse than burn blue, be. Let night fall then, somewhat like in hue, dusk’s velvet box creak its hinge, evening solitaire and satellite its chippy twin, or evil, attic-rummage legacies enough […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part nine)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part nine) “Her sister! Was it you…?” Thinking late of traps, Andreas fell silent. Maria said: “Hush!” She raised a hand before the window’s light; a hand that trembled. “I sent warning, yes. Never mind, I should not have. I […]