Vernon Frazer

Keeping a Chance Last


other roadsides would
see toes move the fodder groin 
casting garbled expertise

              arterial dots
              slotted a padlocked pagoda

     for nodal detonation 

the ensemble schemata moves
shanks as deterrents parted all

                    blistered grip
                    of the enormous line
                    inherently 
                                    vertical

                          juxtaposition padlocked 
                          graphic lining

      a three-wheeler               hearse 
      not through itself              giving        
                               horizontal  

            implicit thrush monitors
                 pressed barmaid thugs
                       to become prime leisure

                                          (a liberator in delicto)

                                   flagrante

          through and about

                                        acquisition impresario

  
                                                                             layoffs
                                         *

his toothpowder loyalists
catch well in pabulum line
 shaft friends 
                      insignia inaccuracies  

                  vary precisely
about         to backfire impulses 
   to            blistered legends
                                              perish

     scrotal gull in graphic paint
     twined nonstop casseroles

         giving slow listeners
                                          the polemic itself

                     padlocked 
                     against lotto shaker epics



Time Passage Frozen In


before the visionary caddy 
buttonholes a boa vocalist
its tread warmly illustrated 

     a slow visit
     encasing blaze lint
     scathes long frequency 

          a bearskin blowlamp 
          impounded the monetary timekeeper 

               *

noose alert 
                  follows                  formal transit
                                                 disport habitats
     in                                        departing from 
midpoint                                run-in sequence

                   a clatter vocal
      follows a revivalist raw-handed

 
              whose rumor seeds        glasshouses 
                                              among driven legions

          *

one crossbar rebuttal
plated assent to form 
                                  a burlesque

           intrepid clatter                          horned                     
below the bestial boomerang              repentance
                                                           fedora


caught subtlety radiations 
before a magical deflection

     lowered

                     faded 

                                flamenco 
     
a classicist grumbled the natal catalogue forever



One Experienced Consequence


 
 
 
Strobing the Nostalgia Light


decimated tympani crashes 
a looming revelation transforming 
the parade of thinking nights 

     carapace hopes 
     skeleton buttons
     horizon carousel 

            overtures distrust enclosure odds 

*

     banter tense 
         the storied clips ring walled cans 
                     or vigorous
                                     tinting 

     unsettled pronouncements

     would peal panatela
         to walled vignette rings 
               limber through the fixture 

sawtooth rumors iceberg the panacea factor

*

cufflink declarations shred pretenders 
     port rail barkers call unsealed 
 their sunset buttons limp verbatim 

     denied chart stamping 
     suburban zoning buttons
    rapture the plating reply 

        glances
        yearn the demon heat from dance



Fabricating at the Convention


vacant technologies 
                   at sorrow events

relieve
the torn sleeve of doubt
rendered 
               a rip in time

      amended stitching amok

           with claims of glue
           banding fabric vessels

to relinquish their turkey beverage

     keeping the thread
          in tact                    or out

a minus from accessible conjunctions

the tear
an expression of
              its cloth               happening
        as                cut             short
              abruptly                stopped

mechanical tears kept generating
wet handkerchiefs

                      never
                                the
                                      less

               a streamed exhibition of running fabric 

                                                grimly 
                                                          minded

Vernon Frazer hides in plain sight.
 
 
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