If you turn to any page in this collection, you’ll find a poem flexed near to the snapping point. This Frayed Universe has tight language and images that blaze. Brashear isn’t afraid to write about struggles that people with mental illness face. The speakers in these poems share wounds and hopes of healing. In them, there is love and a love of the damaged pieces which don’t quite fit in a puzzle but look as though they should. These poems somehow push them in place. More than anything, the readers will leave each of these pages moved.