Torsade Literary Space 
My Blog Week: November 3 to November 9
All the Latest from Torsade! Two Bedlams, with Richard catching up on Cookesville news, and seeing the tardy appearance of his brother. A “Tambinder”, with Deenie entering her own house under protection. A “Resident”, with John’s memories taking […]
My Blog Week: October 27 to November 2
All the Latest from Torsade! A Bedlam, with Richard frying eggs for breakfast. Two Totems, a fable partly told, and a new shore reached. My Blog Week: October 27 to November 2 […]
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 […]
Story: Tourmaline (part two)
Tourmaline (part two) He felt, for the first time with Palma, unconciliating. She had left him here with dehydrated cheese, tins labeled meat product, raisins, and sour, spoiled fruit drink. He was tipping in the window and breaking icicles for water, hoping they were dusted with corpses and ruin, that […]
The Totem-Maker (part sixty-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Seven Winter Alone (part sixty-four) The gods seemed set to storm again, conjuring clouds, the low sun himself cowed, shining pale in colors not his own. First to the yard, to collect all that might be burned. I burst out, […]
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 […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred ninety-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part one hundred ninety-four) Saying so, the man took Dancer by the harness. A stranger pitched in, shouting and yanking coattails to clear a path. Their helper muttered, “Get gone out my way, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred ninety-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part one hundred ninety-three) iii. Stakes race “One of Fannie’s speakers, long ago,” she told Weem. “Mr. Collinson visited New Zealand again in ’87. Looking with his own eyes, the terraces […]