Chapman Hood Frazier
What is a Vessel between Friends?
She’s a vessel
green or blue between
us
split up
I/you see
her
as faceted
to be broken
in time
into two
Chapman Hood Frazier’s The Lost Books of the Bestiary was published in 2023. His work has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Poetry Review, The South Carolina Review and other publications. Several poems have won awards from the Poetry Society of Virginia and his “Conversations with Contemporary Poets” interviews with poets from the US and Northern Ireland have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicles, Agni Online and Shenandoah. Currently a Professor Emeritus from James Madison University, he lives in Rice, Virginia and co-manages Bellfield Farm LLC, a writer’s retreat.