Torsade Literary Space 
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 […]
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 […]
The Tunnel (poem)
The Tunnel They two bent like marsh grass under the prow of a canoe that glides through fog of daybreak And here the air filled with a delicate miasma too They had reason leaning towards each other to feel safe emerging from the tunnel They might have stepped down Their rings […]
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 […]