Torsade Literary Space 
Collared (poem)
Collared How did he become the man who barked like a dog? Immersed in the grit and manure and rot of his role Tackled by a brave few hitherto hidden A meeting hastily convened in a garret On hands and knees in mudcaked trousers He shelters like a cur behind […]
Right Livelihood (poem)
Right Livelihood You will have to have Means other than paychecks To measure the value of time And when you buy potatoes Put two in the ground And when you owe tax and debt Consider charity And when you think of pleasures Not enjoyed yet Think of parity And when […]
A bird (poem)
A bird poor girl we will never know, we can never guess passing feathers and airy bones, washed articulated under bubbling ice in a posture of aborted flight be careful these days of accidents be careful of speeding near shallow water with a bloodless face her detritus warns let it give […]
Right Action (poem)
Right Action curious about horrors warnings of graphic content, last phone calls “last phone calls” a titled feature The thing that would be said frankly may or may not 6.7 million views, 506,000 views, 645,000 views, 2.7 million views, 4.8 million views, 1.2 million views Footage from copyrighted material, altered, sometimes […]
Right Speech (poem)
Right Speech Take the A of abstinence, allowing is not aloud here Aiming is outward where goalward is autonomy Doubt-free disinterest to approaches of tempters, not achieved without the inwardest of ears Or absentest, aural grasping through vibration, of impact Always speaking knowing what you mean, but Can you hear yourself […]
Right Thought (poem)
Right Thought You would be free You would begin your hell-bound trek to liberation Attracted by a campaign Of eradication Clean surfaces, How To…how nice Soon emptied drawers exhale colonies Of clutter-squatters, camped on chairs You tell yourself, “I will clear three shelves” But small embodiments, often figurements Show you in […]
Forgive (poem)
Forgive say it’s a secret parching for a seat, a spot to fall into a lady faint Why’s it all so fraught? Squinting at how funhouse the two of you appear and wouldn’t it be best to dart inside this shop pull disguises from the racks So who was that girl […]
Closed (poem)
Closed On remembered walks, sun sapping the will to squint at the curb where a car might jump Not be blinded into casualty by fair weather Become a digit in a death toll, rushed to hospital “…died of injuries sustained” Sustained, as gaveled into allowability By whom It just seems, the […]
Repoussé (Three Actors)
Repoussé (Three Actors) Heaven’s vengeance on marauding brigands Hammered in a wine cup Proof against the devil Yet the show doesn’t start Catching, it resets and strains of music introduce Three actors They take the stage and play their scene Speak their dialogue again And one Outwitted and a step behind […]
Right Understanding (poem)
Right Understanding Listen, hearing What’s attached to your head, make advance patrols, trailblazers Of surrounding space Hair networks your scalp not for nothing, let the air inform you Whether something’s in it Let your ears tell how much at-battle the noise is Let the holes of your piercings convey as wind […]