Every bargain is deceiving— the cost of trinkets hidden in the fingerprints of those who held them last, pins abandoned in the second-hand voodoo doll the way comets leave a trail of shrapnel suspended in their wake or Spock, exposed to radiation in the Wrath of Khan can’t touch his friend goodbye
Grant Clauser
Grant Clauser
Grant Clauser is the author of two poetry books, Necessary Myths (Broadkill River Press 2013) and The Trouble with Rivers (Foothills Publishing 2012). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review,Cheat River Review, The Good Man Project, Mason’s Road and others. He also writes about electronics, teaches poetry at random places and chases trout with […]
Grant Clauser: The Taxidermist’s Daughter
The workshop smells of chemicals and wood, a hint of fur and the sound of wild running through tall grass. I watch him peel the skin from deer, polish bear claws and fix the flaws of careless shots in the body of a running fox. But best I like to touch the birds, the pheasant […]