David Fraser

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David Fraser lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, www.ascentaspirations.ca, since 1997. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in 28 journals including Three Candles, Regina Weese, Ardent, and Ygdrasil. He has published a collection of his poetry, Going to the Well (2004) , a collection of short fiction, The Dark Side of the Billboard (2006) and edited and published Ascent Aspirations Magazine Anthology One(Dec.2005) , and Ascent Aspirations Magazine Anthology Two – Windfire and AguaTerra Anthology Three http: //www.ascentaspirations.ca/aapublishing.htm David is currently the BC Federation of Writers Regional Director for The Islands Region. He is the founder of WordStorrn http: //www.ascentaspirations.ca/WordStorm.htm David Fraser has a BA in English from University of Toronto, and an MEd in adult education from OISE. In Ontario he taught English, Creative Writing Writer’s Craft among other subjects at the secondary school level for 30 years. He was the ski school director for High Park Snow School for 8 years. Currently he is a full time writer who also teaches skiing at Mt. Washington in the winter.)

The Best Poem Of David Fraser

Laundry Day

Today is laundry day
a full hamper of open
wounds to cleanse;
one beating heart
slashed, sutured, slashed again,
pumping out its tender pulse,
an open chest, the dab, dab, dab
of the moist muslin used
most nights to wipe away the tears,
wrapped ‘round the forefinger
dab, dab, dab at the serrated edges,
plucking out small vocabulary shards,
flash card fish nibbling at already swollen skin,
cleaning abrasive to these wounds
remembered moments, slivers,
cold metallic words
lodged, festering beneath the ribs
keeping still this stagnant place.
But today is laundry day,
a day to scrub clean
these carved canyons leaking pain
to hang this heart out on the line
pegged in the wind
poised for change.

June 2006

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