Stiff-backed Times

When stiff-backed times
replace compassion
a host of trapped single-visioned,
bound, framed
collective minds
fixatedly fix
our inner beauty
with hammers,
pounding hearts
flat like metal,
molding, bending
all that flow
of what is human
to their righteous
will.
Should we in stiff-backed
times rush head
long toward them,
rams meeting heads
or should we wait
for them to become
an anachronism?

David Fraser likes to balance his life among a variety of activities in the areas of writing, education and sports. When he is not formally working as an educator, he is either writing and researching or involved in one of the following sports: alpine skiing, ski teaching as a full time professional ski instructor at Mt. Washington, BC http://www.mtwashington.bc.ca/winter/default.cfm , windsurfing, tennis, golf, cycling, hiking. In addition he likes to garden, listen to the blues, and search for his way through Taoism. He has built his second water garden which has become his new daily sanctuary. His is learning and refining his Spanish fluency and will travel back to Central and South America in the near future. He lives among the flora and fauna of the British Columbia West Coast. David is the editor of Ascent Magazine - Aspirations for Artists (established 1997).

Email: David Fraser

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