Fox Henry Frazier

Where I’m From #22By Fox Henry FrazierInspired by George Ella LyonI am from Susquehanna and Chenango riverbanks,from rock salt and backyard timber rattlesnakes.I am from a house with beautiful hearthstones—smooth, grey, smelling faintly of rain—and another house, scented with lavender and hibiscusand gunpowder.I am from ivy and holly and This berryprobably won’t kill me if I only take the tiniest bite,and from bitter, but it didn’t.I’m from horseback riding and I’ll go where I please,from Kennedy and Frazier. I’m from the grandmothermurdered by the IRA in the front doorway of her house.From I saw the spirit leave her body and stories of the púca,I’m from dizzying incense, and which priests we learned quicklyto shy away from.I’m from Bittersweet Farm and forest horses in a hamletnamed for peonies, from Galway Bay and lost in the Atlantic.From ham biscuits and jambalaya, from sarmi and dolmeh.I come from a little girl caught in a riptide & surroundedby a school of jellyfish, who looked skyward and was pulledashore by the hand of God.Where to find Fox:Website: https://agape-editions.com/team/fox-henry-frazier-founding-eic/Where to find Alyson:Website: https://www.alysonshelton.comSubstack: https://whereimfrom.substack.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/byalysonshelton/