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| Bad Dog Metalworks |
the great unraveling has begun
frayed threads of society’s hidden
fabric are being pulled violently
a crude quilt erratically stitched connects pieces
appliques depict justice
point the oblivious to cloaked truths
Joanne Kennedy Frazer is a retired peace and justice director and educator for faith-based organizations at state, diocesan and national levels. Her work has appeared in several Old Mountain Press anthologies, Poetic Portions anthology, Soul-lit Spiritual Poetry, Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine, Panoply Literary Zine, Snapdragon Journal, Whirlwind Magazine, Kakalak, Red Clay Review and Gyroscope Review. Five poems were turned into a song cycle, Resistance, by composer Steven Luksan, and performed in Seattle and Durham. Her chapbook Being Kin (CreationRising Press) was published in 2019. She lives in Durham, NC.