Vernon Frazer





Career Change of the Ancient Mariner


suicide tests 
a theoretical factory torrent line 
quadrant measures

a lower mystic unplugged the nodes

the balcony mix 
whispered albatross fixation distancing
murmur denials

airwave moguls served phylum remnants

a millennial best 
for zoot fabric handkerchiefs
frightened

cold people who need theoretical mallets

many passions
while fertile compendium points
tuned stentorian

dash flagellants to the granite welting

cattle wander 
frightened the pocket merchants 
gone artful

their haze ravishing the plural dissent



Return of the Wild Ones


                      1.


disrepair toothpaste
targeted hinterlands
debt guru distention

     burlesque lowered them

silence left the center
enabled a fingermark meritocracy

     their pucker talks the step
     into typical sausage aggression

              wet entreaties
                       edify        
             when bartered


                      2.


a confused coven
gone to bustle turd formality
defers 
           its boater campaign

             to the distillery
             while gloried returns

                      hector thirsty errata

a sentient broomstick never an endearment


                      3.


radar fingerprint ravenous
udder volcano grows firearm experience 
admonished commands tangle 

     lunch a sloe fizz
     ginned up a gloried peccadillo
     pressed the buff

                                (savory hush)

           experienced motorcycle reversing

                   its fingermark burn
                   their deluxe plumage departing


   leaves one green tortilla always blown cement



Healing the Sound



unique notepad thirst
in controlled terminologies 
glossolalia shrieks

     improvisation
     continental indeterminacy
            
          an ecstatic expulsion
          that prolonged peripherals

     what one might call
                                    certain approval dogs

               a more precise technocrat
                             
                       to legitimate
                       visual poinsettia
                       into argot
                 
                                        that updates 
                                        the paragon traffic
                                        elevations of 

                                                     the strums 
                                                     that percolate

                                             *

              the lanyard
              apprehends and transcribes
                          a visual pageboy

      for disease presented
           musket elevations that 
                turn textile into musician

the mum passengers of spontaneous ordeal

         play counterpoint
         in connecting physicians

the leftist cerebral hens
chambered the reading
choosing its passenger          to interpret between using

                   expressive concurrence   
                   and projective vertebrae

                                     before adventure can ordinance

socially-conditioned                        stateroom
attendants to achieve a                     wayside
                                          phenomenological consensus  

                  on a physiological
                                                   conversation gauntlet

                                        visual

                             in the last half-caste



Reception at the Coastal Remnant 


fallow the moribund halter calling
gamut victuals fallen to portrait loom
conjectural fragments left guesting
oral counterparts to group soliloquy
compost headings faltering close
chance vandals wallow in salt bins
shaker loose to its aching encore
schematic telegram fodder clenched
ingenuous leather treaties turned 
triangle wrenching soccer weddings
ruin blanched fiasco treaties run
past vital rumination quadrants
turning escarpment mottoes runic
as the tunes blazed light sharply
past melody’s era fragmenting ear
to a vestige nearer than its clipping
bears to current striation plasma
spreading mnemonic transfer badges
among those calling for great shores
to bring gallows threaders to mend
fencing casualties that murmur 
nightly plastic sequins whisper tight
as lips will seal the fish hatcheries
where hidden secretions follow clued
ensemble currents to shallow fences
that left to wade the fulcrum level
badgered to emission treading form
while content to decline hammock 
seating truculent restoration banners
swell to optimum configuration masks
leaking plaster through mastic leverage
near augmented projections looping
vintage accumulation brackets within
steep granary bludgeons made to forfeit
a plural entourage with concealed intent
toward the making of a naked transfer
that would bleed the heart of an artichoke
free of any pistachio climate freezers
or truculent vapidity wipers battering
nuisance cake no ambulatory manners
lacking the grit of circumference sheds
dotting the landscape ruins left smoking
corn silk memoirs with toxic additives
testing the measure of a clenched breath
held longer than the chart can swallow

Vernon Frazer’s most recent poetry collections are Secret’s Exhibition and Gravity Darkening.

 
 

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