Torsade Literary Space 
Where Fashion Sits
Where Fashion Sits Are you the larval worm in the larder Every feathered pillow has this unseen delver You feel yourself layered in tissue paper Your rat’s race a peristaltic ripple of waxy flesh Your crackling head a pin That glue has brittled in the way of yellowed cellophane The […]
Caught Alone
Caught Alone Loved one, they gather on the stairs The passageway is closed The door will jar against a darting shape Unnoticed, their kind, snuffed in the daily cataclysm One will tear the fabric Go She is standing in the kitchen of her mother’s house Caught alone Under the popeyed […]
Oracle
Oracle Be ossuary of the boneyard Be statuary of the arcade Stealing tale-bearing, stop Freeze in relief but soft Catwalk over the under with stealthful feet An icicling drip of sewer fat Piles on the pit of the catacomb That underpinning of the street A caryatid hefts upon her head entablature […]
dissolving (poem)
dissolving it was a solution, now it is not it worked, like the blades of an agitator at dethreading fabric, then towels to sop the spreading could be peeled from the waste, carrying their stopgap contamination loads and trashed And the troubles entered every household seeming dilute, kept on top of […]
For a Non-Emergency
For a Non-Emergency When we’ve settled in our rooms For a non-emergency The observation of the dumb under euthanasia He believes he can imprint a picture of this earth Oblivious to others he rehearsed Mechanical men have put his thoughts aside for fixing A distant monitor listens The pulse gives […]
Abdication (poem)
Abdication Your eyes stung and crusted You lie unmoving A sibyl garnering predictions vaporing from sewer grates With her liberality of diction She baits you Bile of the nation Abdication Like a starfish ambulating Your stomach leaves the nest to feed A seesawing cindered feather floats Liver and spine-meat from […]
The Clue (poem)
The Clue They had traveled together a good distance His manner of expression gave her pause He doubted she would understand these words And every pleasantry he uttered “I hope you haven’t heard all this before” Was mortared in its place to stop a fault from growing He fluttered samples of […]
The Cause (poem)
The Cause You an islet, witness to an hour of rising You a fleer and a tunneler You at times overroofed by another’s Wasted heat Hate discovers you One of these will speak against you And the worst of these Enflamed the mind an empty fuel tank of fumes Swings a […]
Sail past (poem)
Sail past What if you got the job? Would it have a disastrous effect on your twenty-four hours, eight required, sixteen (alleged) free But commuting, licking boots by “taking work home”… Sleep Your allotment dwindles You don’t know how old you have to be before your past presents as a […]
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. […]