John Fritzell

CONTACT:
Email: jdfritzell@new.rr.com

BIO:
John Fritzell lives in Appleton, WI with his wife and two part-time hunting dogs. A graduate of Grinnell College and employed in the financial services industry, John’s recent poems have been published in Plainsongs, Bramble, and Gray’s Sporting Journal. John is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP).

Poetry

Paddling with Dragonflies

Who is this restless couple,
this twisted pair, this light
iridescent heart
contorted abdomens
unwed confliction of wings
and short antennae,
their pulsing cadences
trying to straighten out
that which cannot be
straightened out,
but scorched instead
by the hard and the hot
deck of my old friend’s
kayak, before she lifts them
with the cool blade of her
paddle and lowers them
down to the lily pad—lit,
to float in their room
not taken?