Vernon Frazer


Looking In


tango feathers
a bedding thong apart

     removes
                    a sultry accent

                from the art angling

the duality 
                 undertoning its repartee

tight in flight
an arching background
moves 
           shadow flickers

                         their percussion

                 a step a throb a chatter-click

                         above it the winging trajectory

                                a light careens 
                                its mirror echo

       a slant across
       cheekbones to seasoned beak
          
               leathers the wind

                    to weather the dream



Beholding the Spin of the Beholder


a monetary caligram
encouraged random electron breeds
                     not to umber

a blockaded legation 
breathes emanation garlands
     toward
                 eyepiece commotion

     a roue in designer turban 
     would shock any cardinal

              (grimly hallucinogenic brimstone
              wills hologrammatic swallowers)

    thoughtful pixel illustrated
    rupture pathway bending 
    a metamorphosis encore

               turntable lobotomy timing 
               natal password seedbeds

          umbrage workdays
          imposed cadence taboos
               encased
                             rivet disclosure

                        the northward loco
                        berating mustard pulsing

                 (immediate facial)

                        the faded
                        noumena cadenza  
              
                   ferments a revenue play        
              
                              its hot curtain 
                              missing the casted sycophant
                      


Getting Smugged


goad holders
need inclement plumage
                     lowered
     a
 casual          whirling
 vertigo
                     clatters

       thrashing merger transits

     crackling the copper
          detritus heater verge
               no good forge blotter

reposes breeze metronome crude
where simulacrum amplifiers negate
breath whisks crowded in seepage

          frank 
                     every chaplain 
                                                 statue  
                                             
     low sunburn thugs will refit
          palpitating grinder courtesy
               remedial off-drinkers ration

        value                    relay
          the                    hidden
     measure            glimmering

            deleterious rapture

                  cantos purse
                  tumid doorstop delirium

                        almost cut 
                        gripping its own saturation



Futures Pitched


                                           1.


iced empire scenario
the struggle over, the worthwhile 
praxis creaking easy

     padded above
     the carry of its                
     atonal keynote              a              curried grievance 
     
                   withdrawals in                      from dusk

                                    the forgotten tableau
                                    fingered a vanishing        


                                           2.


         before vinyl 
when bamboo antics on view
                                              overshoot symmetry
           the will of
    a patchwork foible                        empty
                                                              motifs
                    (undetected) 

                                          processing factual wingtips

moistened                                   a weary reflux
obscure planetarium hooves             
dead iceberg cavernous               deliberation

                        moat wavering     

                                                              as failed


                                           3.


galloping stares
pouncing finer glacier flip
             will cast out
                                 the pitch

                         pursue the theremin

      breathless offshore 
      unless headlong tide torn
              homeward   

                         denotation hangings

                                      lurch

                                              lipsticks dispatch beauty
                                              for their strange apogee


                                           4.


      their multiphonic
      seeks bargained cement
           and 
                 cover reactionaries

                           adrift in departures 
                           and disparity sirens 
     
               (splatter in with 
                patio dissolve)

                         future’s weary lid the amplification 

        of the prophetess

another martyred fireball swaggers

                  delirious 

                                 into

                                        darkness
 


On Epstein’s island


thirsty sunburns
planet  loaves embalmed forever       
numb the spawn

                              momentarily

          disinfectant imbroglio
          notches cheerleaders                           
          rigs waddled matters

   basting in the aristocracy collar

              glugging bashes 
              where narrowed

                   earmark
                   a psychedelic verve pageant
      
                               oscillating

wealthy linens with profound assemblages  
or its underdeveloped caloric permanence    

     ontological crotch pay 
     liquidity fades beyond
     climbing on the pillow

                         envies hovered 
                         to dawn where lyricists closed
 



Vernon Frazer’s latest poetry collection is Gravity Darkening.
 
 

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