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Richard Froude

Richard Froude was born in London and raised in the Westcountry. He has lived in the US since 2002 and is the author of the chapbooks Tarnished Mirrors: Translations of Charles Baudelaire (Muffled Cry), The Margaret Thatcher Trilogy (Catfish), and The Passenger (forthcoming from Minus House). More work can be found in a number of online and print journals. He lives in Denver.

Apocrypha #9

25 April 2008
Vol. 8, No. 1
poetry, prose poem

I would tell you this directly. I would assemble a presentation of Polaroids and morals, protract the particular angles of her refraction. Serve canapés and arias and make allusions to a definition rooted in shape: the deltoid, the ellipse.

Lacking an alphabet to appropriate this flexure (which is where she maunders): a fable whose protagonist is light, the outskirts of an oral tradition, these are anxieties indigenous to our region.