Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: April 11 to April 17
All the Latest from Torsade! Apologies, readers. I did well this week schedule-cramming, but things still popped out at the edges, and I didn’t end up with time to write my WOW piece. I did get some poetry done and new entries for […]
Sum of (poem)
Sum of Long patience, the sort a society of resurrectionists Calls its like-to-like decode of Low resonance A Plan, cryptographical embed, that which Sifts the dead-weight from the Superman A blat from the alpenhorn In figure Reverbs of duty-bound orders, secret Errants who have stood Before the longbow, and sacrificed the […]
Hammersmith: All Safe Bets Off (chapter thirteen)
Hammersmith Chapter Thirteen All Safe Bets Off “Doesn’t seem so long ago.” Mack, unable to do anything about Aimee’s arm hooked through Hogben’s, though it pleased him to see Hogben once or twice give a mild tug, ill-at-ease…had got next to Shaw behind them (he ignored Shaw), and […]
Mathilde Alanic: Shine! (part thirty-nine)
Mathilde Alanic Shine! (part thirty-nine) This mental stagnation came in company with a strange fearfulness, a disquiet. “If I were superstitious, I would believe I was having a presentiment. What bad luck is lurking in the shadows? Or can it be good?” As […]
To Terms (poem)
To Terms If it was forgiveness come for Or, if a jar of minutes had been stationed where a centerpiece might go And every staged remark of the conversation got its candy heart with a slogan bitcher, loser, lame-o, snob, martyr, gloater nuisance to others, at sum, unloved tossed in then […]
For a Non-Emergency (poem)
For a Non-Emergency When we’ve settled in our rooms For a non-emergency The observation of the dumb under euthanasia He believes he can imprint a picture of this earth Oblivious to others he rehearsed Mechanical men have put his thoughts aside for fixing A distant monitor listens The pulse gives a […]
Mercy (poem)
Mercy You might be the bitter pith Your green unripe skin rasped away Your head shaped like a human skull Bone-colored, soft as a sponge and impressible Eating awkward lunches An object at the table A centerpiece blocking the view All eyes track and scatter delineating the dot dot dot of […]
My Blog Week: April 4 to April 10
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Comfort and Convenience When we think about Amazon, we should think about retailing itself, what Amazon does and what it doesn’t do. Since the 21st […]
Eight: Honesty (poem)
Honesty Honesty become a tool of abuse Your hands pumping frankness up your neck-strings, mottling your frozen features with lifelike mantling, roseating from your mammoth pores Soon As, from your salesman’s case you pull nothing Saleable to the present state But bandy, as a bandwidth manipulator Your loutish telling of your […]
Hammersmith: A Daughter’s Sense of Duty (chapter twelve)
Hammersmith Chapter Twelve A Daughter’s Sense of Duty Her father hadn’t seen the host of faults communicated by his offhand errand, the one he had promised Mossbunker he would do himself. “Stage name, that’s the phrase you want. Ask her if it’s one.” Minnie Leybourne, Mossbunker the patriot would […]