an anarchist burns the verandah
story by brentley frazer
published 23 january 2009
originally published at brentley.com
 
the self expressed | volume 1 number 12
 
"Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth." -Jean Houston
 
published April 2007 to January 2009 | The Self Expressed is a collection of creative texts.
 
 

TBA publishing partner Brentley Frazer (eMailWeb siteMySpace page) is an artist who lives in Melbourne, Australia. His literary work has appeared in a slew of reputable periodicals, journals, and anthologies. Brentley’s first major collection of poems and microtexts, A Dark Samadhi (PC Press), was released to wide critical plaudits in early 2003. His paintings have been exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions since 1995.


In 2001, the multifaceted Aussie, while still a resident of Brisbane, founded Retort Magazine, an electronic journal dedicated to the publication and presentation of new, innovative and experimental art and text. Retort features both fiction and non-fiction on a semi-regular itinerary and has published some of the world's best known artists and writers as well as having continued to offer a platform for emerging writers and artists.


Brentley also writes freelance for several online and print publications. His interviews/reviews of artists and writers have been published by Pixel Surgeon Magazine, Antipoda Magazine, and Cordite Magazine, among others.

 
 

Jim Galli (Web site; eMail) lives and shoots in Tonopah Nevada. (all rights reserved)

 
 
 

 
 
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I come to the forgotten house
and not to lose my resolve
nor to seek some souvenirs
but to walk alone under the arch,


where boots of masters and generals
of armies have also stood in solitude.


Who comes asking for bread at your door
but the Buddha wounded by his charge,
and though you soap his wounds he
dies quietly in your bath (last words
about children selling car-parts in Africa
and the seasonal rain on deserts I don’t
remember).


The shades cast on the verandah
and the vines on the fence beyond which
a gang of boys wreck with hammers the
face of an angel in the graveyard.

 

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