Friday, April 30, 2021

Vernon Frazer - 5 Pieces

 

Vernon Frazer’s new poetry collection, Gravity Darkening, has just been released.

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Socially Transmitted Unease



anti-bacterial mission goes viral

*

at the sunset lounge 
the plants decayed the bent 
of the memory questers
 
lost 
in a sea 
of missing
legends gone urban 

or 
fading to oral 

*

bug fashions breed 
pursuit for conduit tensions 
canker levity patches 

suite as dead ears burn
grim resignation tents inferred

sentient venting 
  gender passage

*

inclined release 
    deferral pent
up and down the lateral wagon


trained to circle 
self-reflexive as one height 

bumbling gently toward levity 
referrals paid like old debts 
smell the dead fish rotting 

bottom to gunwale

as fashion would have it  (or not)
when its pretension spread
 



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Never Enough


 roaming lavender shortages
          nightly letters aching embers
               foretell a fan lapel downpour

fossil styles let strata churn
to thinning the addled past 

                   omelet fabric 
          vibrant 
                                 over its lowering 

similar shortages tow without principle

     *

the tableau timing a simulacrum 
shallow discharge omens dive to fail 
impetigo bandwidth absorption

     grape bells rings onset
     past settings overturn whenever
                            borders veer cold 

wheeling east striving reels clock their strike 

     *

translucent aching gripped the cold 
before stations or galleys cluster lost meat 
wait at aching shores
burning the metastatic need 

     from cue to churning equinox
          shallow billiard magnet lecterns 
               envy shaking tablets animated

despite the murmurs of passion’s last reel



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Porch Talk



skeleton asphalt 
sunset reminiscence fodder
                   
testicular iceberg water transforming hard displays 

(no data from engine rhythms)

     thickening patches polish 
              easy coupons 
                   unpaid doubt 

another distrust in platelets 
a cappella banter incursion 
all fall the occipital horizon

leveled pretensions 
receding as noon in distention 

pancreas veneer no briar fastener loaded 

     sensual repetitive markets 
          toward cul-de-sac rumor 
              fall assures transformation 

                            (actuarial variety attack month )


an opus sold in backer laboratories 
marketing the unpaid left-hander for fusion clipboards 

          transformation sag 
               over foreground lost 
                    falls before the symbol 

     the artifact papa coiled beyond its courage


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Mastering the Universe at Last



think primordial green 
budgeting a sensual a cappella

     pestilence advisors 
     desist in hard peccadillo flagstone 

              end marquees 
              refund a decimated vector 

                       *

the hard relaxation

          many off thinking clocks, 
          reprieve the velvet rondo 

panegyric refund advisors 
appeal storied reciprocity enlistments 

                      peepshows
                                         tiffs 
                                               wrangles

refute an urchin chill 
eastern reflexes detonate 

                                   the vacant 

           artery dredger 

the drink cleavers employ lighthouse charm

                             *

postal dockets lost a panel
its bombardment baffled the new cartel 

                                  (steel portfolio verbatim)

their peepshows
render used thongs, “easy“

     cannily intervene 

whether calling secures 
receding diversions ricochet

                                 skillet failure


costly rash 
     flatfish-haired 
           turned disquiet 

                  redeeming gabardine retirement 



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Attack of the Life Cycle



umbilical shock
burns vintage shadow raids


      garam attack falsettos
      will swagger fishnet plaid 
      through a sonata vex

               crossing demand rockets

the ancient notch replays 
circulating the apoplectic
plane notion daring entry

               dulcimer template packets
               fragmented to fish dosage
               the lighting narrow, furtive

bear junkets posing, then snatchers force
           
          a passive trampoline viper
          tailored noon grotto tapestries
          to the daylight tenet 
                   the                 udders locked
                random             exchange denial
                 wind                 with desolation

                     building leveled

random platitudes bragging 
plague rerun as mixed breath stamps 

          reflux command fabric strikes

          aporia logic 

                            icon suture garnish
                            curries washer years
                            the way
   
                                         integer cremation left intimacy 

                                                        loquacious