Vernon Frazer 


Questing for The Next


                           1.


visionary school 
even legion where its dinner covens 
              blocked natal 
                                   fretting

    a caddy turned stationer 
    unimaginable for marrow creditors

          natal scathe
          firebreak distention
          fetal vendors

     assigned precision cheer
     reversing hospital fitness

                  a remittance dimwit

            grows derailed 

a confrontation wink to lobotomy

           boiled linear 
           for a venom prophet luncheon

                    curries brickading 
                    eyelid crosswinds

                         dispose blowtorch pork
                         metronome brimstones


                                2.


a landlubber blocked Elvis
the confrontation encased a lesser scorn
                             bearded and slow

         flyby ledger		               brim
      a divine retrofit                    cruel

                   jumpsuit tourniquet

                                                      a pinched yelp

bearded and slow
junior chopper cataclysm
spectral headgear

                            first breakdown scent vodka
                            inebriate repentance a rarity
                   
          (night vesicles one viewer away)

longitudinal vicissitude mantra

     leaning forward in four gears
     annual harbinger spring outcome
     as cunning as a metier shift
         
                            night rung numbered right

          below finery
          rawhide portage follows woodland
                              outplay
                     jumpsuit parlance



                                3.


              hydrogen daze
              intrepid scorer
    
                          pressed   
             leftward

                        finery curtain finished

discharging precision cruelty

          somnolent vigilante campaign
          minefield celebrity
                                       forever high

                formula cleats
                play vigilantes

                     roadhouse north

                barking security to brims
                beveled while a sculptor

                             drenched toward dimmer gravel



Truth to Power and Back


handbag trickles 
down-and-out dentures removed
scraping calcification

a screwdriver between lipstick 

dividers torn
angry, their memoriam vibrations                             *
spite imagination

pulsation born lost attainments

imagination removed
posture against ripped
shirtfronts slipping

past them to crash-land the faction

orange commandant
slime tractored a driveway
shirtfronts bouncing

a fathead with renewed rudiments

pouncing protestations 
chafed their crypt elastic
against angry spears

ripped the tethered to nomads
 


Antiphonic Riot Cluster


sonic acquaintance 
the frayed mourner impounded 
   vista        sums verbatim
 fusspots        clueless
            unglued

                  the compendium melee

impounds walled cobblestones
measured
                  in vapor fodder
                  a translucent caramel 

     thud                 
              elusive
                           as bleak to stain

anecdotal prefabs swagger 
pan-agnostic as slow christenings
watermark seduction
                                   depart pleasured

    clogging           
nonchalance               enclosing
     remix                      invective
              enigma turbines

                       lettering creaky domains

      radiogram persuasion 		remissions
  thoughtful legacy passions                truncate

          other tremors
          placated the curtain-raiser

                              where legato beveled indemnity
 


Salvation Circus


aching finances deferred
clergyman overrun the ration
lapses restored

                          the custody linens 

         shored unaware
         headlights unleashed

                     remonstrance look-alikes  
                     checkmate deferred bastard pings
                     wherever a displacement

                            envelopes cataleptic restaurateurs

                                *

     under modem bartenders 
     at the invective colonnade
     stalagmite luggage
       
                  imbues geyser tattooists
                  and doormen
                                        lacking suited electronics

                             repel the serpentine
                             cartographers parked near
                             an ugly stillness

                                        embed their unknown hulks

                       greenback maneuvers
                       fasten the deferred potential
                       grounding
                                        decoration peninsulas

                                *

warders of the thickened phylum
forward a bare memento reports 
inking repayment entrepreneurs

                           saving their humiliation
                           unleashed daily plumage cartons

                caste ribbons and ringmaster 
                rattle their servers transparent 

                                   quaking 
                                   fusion to pandemonium

                                               ceramic memorandum

                                                         its cleric the ordination

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

 
 

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