Torsade Literary Space 
The Blurbs
The Blurbs A flight from personal tragedy brings Trey Michaelson to Wetheringdale Farm, with its eccentric collection of healers and seekers. Here she meets journalist Royce Beardsley, a Wethering descendent, who keeps a two-hundred-year-old secret. An afternoon on the bridle path leads to a sealed well-head, and a grim discovery. […]
with sleep (poem)
with sleep Beginning her life, her adulthood slogging to a deficit uncaught up with She would doze through obligation, be forced awake at the job she worked at And her nights where she did not sit plotting her film career of statement art, of strong femme-centric views Aridly, no she did […]
The Public Waits for a Hint
The Public Waits for a Hint They wait for a waking alarm Each day dispels from flailing hands that drag away the mask The vision of a stranger whose mind accepts Cannoned across the continent by a clanging chime He accepts, now you must stop rebelling Like the good of the […]
Guts (poem)
Guts Gutted, crushed, broken, dead Commenters are Dead at the bloated cow’s recurring news Referenced in times its demise seemed only augured News of a weight too light to break News burst upon you, in a sidling way, demanding Almost all are cause-of-death-revealed all the click-throughs warning you that clogs gnashed […]
skyward (poem)
skyward take what you need try to imagine this could be a rule the taking place, the giving place the Eden freshly stocked and reinstalled the hill to climb in searing heat the choice, if having faith, to blank memories of loved persons, loved pets A seeker alone, honing, mind […]
Right Concentration (poem)
Right Concentration Is the world all rotation and roundness Sunflower and sun Hands lacking the callouses that grow when work so often done, so mindless Plays notes through windings of leathered furrows as a songwriter without paper at hand hums a tune again and again but forgets, even so, how […]
Right Mindfulness (poem)
Right Mindfulness being a starving person having ambition for a seed you’ve planted wanting a bean, an iota of life, feeding life to sprout and thrive Happy bean tendrilling to strings and stakes Your own buying of these, pushing them, tying them, in place Dreams for beans, so big, so […]
Right Effort (poem)
Right Effort The easiest job is Go, move, try The hardest easiest job is Fail, lose, retrace The trap we make Is a hero’s narrative The underdog undertakes Endeavor The person, rather Who is tying shoes, is tying shoes Who is picking up what will be tossed again is picking […]
Burrows (poem)
burrows you might not know that you are in the world how strange when the surviving race skates through the cleaner tunnels At least in darkness, the mind populates them, in this way, the rolling sliding sounds above not heedless trains of trash-filled bins or plotters sealing you in And […]
Her Bid for Freedom (poem)
Her Bid for Freedom She could never bear to be herself Dressed in a red coat, dandyish, a cynosure “People stare.” These words were for the angel at her side Known by puckering air, a fragmented hair’s-width or garment’s hem One enveloping unseen form That moves through leaves and makes […]