Vernon Frazer

Matter as Principal


backseat clutter
a tincture current enhanced
as political sealant

before a bootlace sharpener 
masked the monetary commotion

when daylight fizzlers
ferment the onset password
belies bandwidth 

impaired the apostle doubters
blown dry at the simulacrum exit

                  *

the roster 
burning distemper shrines
brays beyond chimps

yearns to breed a vegetable axis
that emanates an empty perimeter

the outer manacle
churning its trendy replication
frenetic tacticians

backlash their toxic receipts
where grabbers tread readily

                  *

vibrant equinox
recedes any similar grabbers
offsets distemper

the animus current decieves
hemispherical vacuum shrines

dough players
tossing their conditioner cash 
would gnaw

the crypt repair collaborators
flailing work lost to their axiom 



Timing the Axis Turn


similar shortfalls
confused enjoyable clocks

when daylight fizzlers
enhanced bandwidth clutter
the backseat apostle

helped ferment 
the onset password
churning trendy

before a bootlace sharpener 
masked the monetary commotion

doubters impaired
simulacra blown dry at the exit
burning vibrant 

the roster equinox
bandwidth handed
frenetic replication

as hemispherical tacticians
emanate an empty perimeter



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



A Dead Reading Gone Live


shaping transits 
invigorated a guillotine cast-off

     mental depletion

             flaring 
             to where raven paste

     in            rendered graphics weary
custard        
                    carrion ossified leftward

                    citadel remissions freed         

                             frontiers blistered outward      


                             (     )


modeling the coffee visuals
status aping its lookout tins
to any unsolvable flagrante 

          decoyed
          to rotary

              a leviathan inversion oath
              that defrayed the denture frescoes

                         (creeping insert)

                   cradling
          inert poetry listeners

                       flanneled
                                       into granite


                            (     )


         napalm oratorio
    hatchback vegetation

               tuned

                         deflation

                                         deadly

          among billfolds crossed and knocking

                gawk envy revealed
                as dispositon seeking plumage

                     a rudderless fortitude
                     unleashed turbo senders
                     murmuring thriller impediments

         actor plagiarism   

                         in terminology staging

                                                     cramped venting

Vernon Frazer’s latest poetry collection is Memo from Alamut, a C22 publication.

 
 

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