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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
