Vernon Frazer

Missed Carriage


pagination rage 
returns
            a resume flavor
resumed
               forward

on a backshift

          time spaces
          agitation caged
 
                to

                   R E L E A S E

         after the period. to start

again a retro carriage
returns
            a favor presumed
         
                       *

               ribbon ink

          E X P L O D E S

   a smudge wake
                              in its past

(background data)

         blurred visionaries
         prophecy 
                        according to type

                 seen
                         from the last millennium



At the Debutante Bawl


dividend fathom reprint
rendered a terrace 
         to
enter boldly                          embargo
                   epistemological
                        superstar
                        receding

                              reprisal unpaid

     the paranoiac distrust
          no portrait can retouch
               or fathom their prodigy

a lachrymose mannequin 
lost its abdominal disruptions

          cortical portmanteau
          transforming the primordial
   
                        coiled
                                  platelets
                                                 flail

                              consume frustration wafers

               post-mortem valence
               assured their stopwatch in storage
                                                intervene

                                preparing 
                                the foreground deviant
                                                through its horizon soiree



Continuous Showing


bare treks
tearing the long 
somnambulist trader       

     fungal entries colonnade
     negligee handrails when
     outbuilding their mantras

                all rasping sleek invective

                 *

playhouses counting noon duties
a forearm taunts tenor-driven chaos
hollers verging on plaid checkmate

available implosions
soon concealed        for
                         free shipping

             applicable headlight cooler 
             called concession tentacle
             where brass intones its fill

                                          faulted stations
                                          predicated 
                                                            charlatans

                           retch on
                           ratcheting a pathetic plumage
                                          artfully

                     *

its concealed interjection 
        a                           humiliation forebodes
    heretic                                                        lingering clear
     haze                             a cyclical play
               each crescendo orchestrated

                            nonstop
  


Cutting Through Rumored Truths



engine region
a supplier across lost falls
                        oiling
     another tab
                       coiled to refute
     primordial 
                      artifact      

when misfortunes veil dissidents

          or pantheon stencil 
          appealed in postal coves

the ensembles beyond all redeeming

                     intervene

                           *

reciprocity yokel
rendered rhapsody rumor

          the debit hostel
          rents bigot advisors            (creches sold)
                                   denied use

               “ship eccentricity in artifact brig”

                   refute pacemaker mercy
                    the marshlands fall hard

         monastery headrests can the bone shaker 

the favor sip                  denied
proceedings                  ozone
slowly ogled                  waged            
                      adapters

documentaries yearn a redeeming divisor

Vernon Frazer hides in plain sight.
 
 
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