Vernon Frazer

Paying Forward on Credit


dominion hurlers
arch their shaking asphalt
grudging 
               derelict dismay

     its patent smear
     breaking
                    an aching placebo

before the crust shift
shook the lantern patterns loose
from shadow shaping

     swollen clusters
     black and blended over concrete

               looming
               a slow play
               flickers        a hand out

clutching a curve
of concrete fragment
jagged
            past the palm

                      dripping red wake

     for
           a future 
                          to follow

                 the shadows ahead of itself
 
 
 
 
 
 
What Was As Is


stretching diaphanous enigma
                          cleft 
a storied tuning        unsung vocal
      chord                       history
         rhetoric left to fodder

stylus returns 
the needle's fidelity to a nod
               in(g) groove

     left to present
              in the mysteries
                                  of the past
          returning
tales of the tiger's ebb

               the casting drama 
                         soaps dialogue 
                                     a clean wash daily

weekend waits 
the tuning fork stigma 
reduced

     to rubble ballads
                                 left unstrung

in the heft of abandoned fortitude 
a web spins
                    the darkening cold

that wraps the tangled sky’s breath



Delivering the Guarded Answers


the caddy of speedboats
among voyeurs slipping ashore
disposes heritage
                             to the unmentioned
     posing                                                             pasted
     darling              chaperone shipped           delays      

      to its vacant settlers  

                                        breeder glamor
                                        the lingering rotisserie

                      outlines sunburns
                                                   on the pedal vent

                                                   *

              monolithic playgrounds clear
              posses guard the secondaries
              repel the compendium usher

     colonnade enactment
     its predicate dawning

                  thirsty                                       maximum
                  before caliper tread                      past
                  renunciation                              cackling

                      the meritocracy breathes cement

            revolt prides 
            quaking peasants grasped                     the
            will                                                         scourge
                  past palpitation                             clipped

                      toward                           reassessments forking

                                        the lash


                                                   *

          airlift history
drifts past magnet predictions
         granite doormats

                  where incisors pull
                       the mutilation lumens
                            grimly before withdrawal

          fortnight                relapse                learned
        recognition            confused             legislation

                menagerie reporter
                                                encased the robots

in predicates            as a vesicle 
artfully worn                                   on seatbelts 

                        to motorway moves

                                                   *

deaf to speeds 
near steak custody
lacking scented sambas

          delinquents in a beauty hood
          pressed scavenging sessions

                          past

                                    advertising patois

               the work finesse 
               sweeps vaunted 
               despite a forked 

                          circumstance

                               raising

                                    honed usages 

                   shown promptly under explication

Vernon Frazer hides in plain sight.
 
 
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