Torsade Literary Space Hammersmith: Tactical Exercises (chapter fifteen)
Hammersmith Chapter Fifteen Tactical Exercises Mrs. Frieslander had volunteered to work the tuning forks. Oh my, the tuning forks! The weight of them had nearly burst the seams of Minnie’s reticule, as she recalled, back then… She hardly knew what to think of herself. She said this aloud. […]
My Blog Week: May 9 to May 15
All the Latest from Torsade! Well, dear Readers, this, in my outside-of-writing life, was Planting Out week, an event known to gardeners, where all our seedlings we’ve been hauling into the garage—or greenhouse, if you’re lucky enough to have one—and hauling […]
From Rattus: Movie of the Week (a TV culture poem)
Movie of the Week A small man climbs Hurries but keeps his hand clamped that it glide in care Care not to lose that grip For him each splintering riser yawns And the rail sits to mock his inches Like a tool that measures, the bar insists “You must be so […]
From Rattus: Why Not Let (poem)
Why Not Let You have to choose things, and delay is not a choice You occupy a desk Your daily life is work and doesn’t work And something like a four-foot space Holds all you see the whole of most your days Your back-vulnerable confrontation with outsiders Ought to have you […]
Eight: argument (poetry series)
argument You’re a sugar cookie, you’re a fashion plate When dressed by experts you sit, deadly tasteful, a smug subdued disc sporting a simple initial You’re a peanut butter cookie, you smell nice in the oven, you pair well with chocolate milk you disappoint a little, why? perhaps it’s your neither-here-nor-thereness… […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part twenty)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part twenty) Luigi di Taranto and Carlo di Durazzo advanced, the others drawing back. Chatter, and the rustling of latecomers, fell to a hush. Then a thunder of hoofs as each knight, on either side of the barrier, spurred his horse. […]
The Totem-Maker: The Citadel (part one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten The Citadel (part one) Our road began to descend. The trees clung less precariously to banks that did not vault, but sloped; soon the trees’ variety had much increased, and the loneliness of the mountain crags gave way to vivid life, to darting small game, birds […]
My Blog Week: May 2 to May 8
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Charmless Offensive First, a theory of mine. That the deep GOP cabal wants to burn Trump out as an asset. If they didn’t prefer him […]
The Folly: Each Nerve
The Folly Wake Each Nerve She sails, within a fortnight, the Bowfin Wake, relieved, or like a living man Entombed, soon, shall heft aside the grinding lid And breathe He cannot whisper his secret heart to Howitt As a maiden sister might…though his friend invites it Howitt’s […]
The Folly: Henry Calmacott (part two)
The Folly Calmacott’s Brother Henry Calmacott (part two) She is a young woman still. Of thirty years or thereabouts, I’d guess And when I’d walked out with Bess, once Or twice Met her down the Ram’s Took her to the picture show Right enough in the head, […]