Torsade Literary Space A Small Exchange (poem)
A Small Exchange A small exchange between the gutter and the feet Wet hosiery and someone letting off corrosive mirth And so having blocks to go She felt uncondoled I mourn with you among strangers Waiting for a split head to hiss out the steam That boils it The curiosity of […]
Eight: refutation (poetry series)
refutation because every vice wears thin, vice and fame every fame makes damned the what she eats and what she wears and what’s she doing? Standing there at the window looking She looks at men who stare because we treasure leavings leave treasures fast maturing up next, another failure-fetish-failure in vicarity […]
The Loath of Oilty (poem)
The Loath of Oilty You, the undersigned Sacrifice your present ha ppiness for future winnings The future is the be st place for be ach combings and the shaking out I saw the shine Of a crushing double blood Macchiato lime twist with a cinnamon stick Moonbeam Bearing heavy on the […]
Resolved (poem)
Resolved How to have human conversation. Begin with a medium of exchange. When we last spoke on the phone; when I received your email. Introduce a subject of exchange. You had mentioned a plan to. You had been having difficulty with. You had informed me that. B, the one inquired of, […]
The Lengthy Story (poem)
The Lengthy Story A traveler who for an empty purse Casts danger as she must, in its most lifelike role This predator will wear his tightest clothes As a speck on a zooming sedan’s horizon Best she dart into scrub and vanish She does They are so many of them alone […]
Haunt of Thieves (part four)
Haunt of Thieves Part Four Ravens hear the trembling gong’s alarm Harbinger of rolling earth Far away as yet but coming near (Birds of the air may take to flight Men and cities cannot do) Souls they carry heavenward, on each feather tip The lost descends to touch in parting A […]
Apprehensively (poem)
Apprehensively Everything was bet that day on ends Still his mind hedged with a handbook He had created through practice, of devil’s arcana He disliked the internet, but learned its self-delusion… not what can be, but is aspired to the great and wealthy totter on a temple tiered to the heavens […]
Peeled (poem)
Peeled Apparency is the means into the mind Dreary the mood of an overheated October Afternoon and no escape The crowd all move together Did the nape clench With premonition Knowing this thing coming Will roll Like the spinning wheel of a wrecked Bicycle a slammed brake Damned if the distractor […]
Bride to Be (part twelve)
Bride to Be (part twelve) Yet with my crafty uncle the field was never taken For thus had his stronghold been devised Ringed fences narrowing passage like a maze A lone stone knob on which, from times bards tell of in their lays Sons of the House of Barangalen Behind […]
Her Day (poem)
Her Day Will you do something? Uncontexted, the question compels, does it? The writer had been hired to complete a story Not so fast, though. The publisher prefers she prove herself She reviews the half-done coattail she might ride to fame Maisie Day, reformed sex-worker turned private agent Encounters her usual […]