Poet's Corner

A Note From John Fraysier Welcome to the Poet’s Corner. This is a personal section that exhibits some of the poetry I have written in recent years. The contemplative detective shown here is not just figuring out house problems, following ants, and planning his next move. His mind is at work with words—a sort of wrestling match with something that happened earlier that day, or forty years ago. The result are some poems I've posted here.

Poetry Verse When Summer Sings The Writing on the Wall Bridges Passed Gardens of the Wood To the Last Frontier A Passing Farewell In Ships March Ashokan Farewell Things I See Rising Star The Turning Wheel The Window Full Circle Bittersweet Vine The Lady of the Snow  Was A Long Creek Invasive Species Ode To A Winter Moon

A songwriter from Georgia that makes a living as a lawyer read one of my poems and then wrote a poem about me. Check out his website and listen in! I love his music.

The Exterminator

What we wanted was for them to stop
Making their impossible straight lines
From the sink to the sugar bowl.
Before Saturday, we never spoke to the exterminator,
We just pointed at those thin black lines.
Last week, he promised, but they came back,
As he backed out of the driveway.
Then on Saturday he came back.
He shrugged at the way the black lines ran
like tiny highways driving in opposite directions.
He bent down to look under the sink and his poems fell out.
I don't know what it was about those poems.
I found them as he was backing out.
The highways were gone and everything else I expected.

Written by Doc Schneider @ http://www.legalguitarist.com/music.html