Torsade Literary Space Noise (poem)
Noise I had a silvered shattered mirror A magic guardian Of some obscure influence Dr. Strange and Mr. Hyde were real men Are you born or made too proud To be un-tenacious Then Your grand self-aggrandizement Disenfranchised Your view in isolation, exaggerated The stories you tell No one to contradict them […]
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 opacity […]
My Blog Week: November 26 to December 9
All the Latest from Torsade! This period, another Catastrophe, with observations by the French undersea cable crew. Everything else is a poem reissued from The Nutshell Hatches, my early work, written mostly in 2014. My […]
The Culture (poem)
The Culture We are important Our three-letter alphabet Constructs our limited language The gravitational center Draws our attention-seeking message The message is I am important Yet you don’t know me On an oxbow The current passes A fallen tree, submerged At a cross-angle green, murky brown Depths, hot from the […]
Bones and Claws (poem)
Bones and Claws “To the living we owe some consideration,” Voltaire said, “to the dead Only the truth.” If only the lid stayed on Some carcass buried in an old tin can Might gas a little The sides might swell and split It’s hard to tell Whether it will blow or vent […]
Beauty (poem)
Beauty I know more than I have learned Others whom I fear Are kin to me and bear my colors we are broken one by one from safe allées among tall trunks Down through resined crowns the wind raises pale hair on our bare arms I stand again at the shore […]
The Comfrey Plant (poem)
The Comfrey Plant The comfrey plant has rooted in And can’t be rooted out Some adventitious pioneering Groping severed bit Might upend the foundation Can we be rid of it? An oily glow of truth Lovely virtue no one loves You would rather see buried deep Something not worth living […]
Give Away the Key (poem)
Give Away the Key Let your inside be your outside Inside Are you wedged like an orange, or Do you spill seeds like a pomegranate Are you bored out like a lock that catches Banged out like a short order Is your mind troubled Are you a clever puzzle solver Cleverness […]