Dressed to Collect
rent vapor a mirage
doubling razors caught
lingering
while calypso circuits
blend into facet glands
narrative flares flashing pineal
mirrors whitewash the malediction
dream
that hints collateral witness
shared half-time swallowers bereft
flume dimension bandits
haunt the formal apron corners
(testaments to radio bluster)
warmly-illustrated
recumbent declaratives waking
homely phenomena tokens
maple rung declaratives
transform polarities before mop gestures
dispensing subterfuge
walk vortical across a wood eponym
umber-toned
no lining, no listing, sly lacing
applicable to historic intervals
in leather tempo gadget swagger
Delivering the Music
the postmark that got away
replied no sending firm attached
or matter
to the subway
stationed at last roll
blithely to oblivion
*
aiming at the train stop
no message detached
ambeince in card charade
patio affirmation a reflux insurgent
no aromatic emblem attacked
the gastric epitome
*
no disincentive urgently packing
to stay
a while
packet surges
ahead destroying
the track
least afforded
*
reaching digestive entropy
the rage in the gut dispersing
lettered pages
of leather intention
silver studs
left there for the beating to dry
before
the hand played
on
the frayed cuffs
a
melody cleverly left
as origin
and destination
Solo Camaraderie
delirium as its sub-glottal potentate
portends the viper's grim ascent
through hitching catacomb securities
no crack too small to writhe though
and deliver the fangs of awareness
when throttled gorges prove munificent
beyond spectral revolution pudding
clarified as butter in a milkstorm fog
attenuated leaflet foliage autumnal
in the nominative plural of its craggiest
rocks turn to pilfer sonata seepage
derelicts at roadside fumigation stands
their twisted enmity a baleful glance
turned hay under the reaper's path
no delaying the transformation deluge
or beluga dreams shelled a casing
the weeping carnage left bedeviled
circuits to enter the contrary demotic
for emblematic weeping as muttered
under the swelling casement seal
humidity posing under its strong suit
veiled the kelp fractures a wall away
from the shore-worn port of entity
where no shopping intruders allow
an affair among ruins to fester long
in the aftermath treaty of harelips
gone hunting tainted vesicle rumors
that launched the greater velvet trial
verbose as its aged seekers claim
re-presents the pastime glory back
from the day it never happened
that way no respite from the nattering
stored for playing poker-faced stud
drawn with a half-stacked deck in hand
or clip as chosen or preferred to ride
shotgun as a native pellet sunning
chronic pellet arrears as bullets
when the hedges slow their lyric
trudge against the beveled wind
revised under begrudging trials
that later falsified their intrusion
proclamations abound irrational
pudding lepers seek hands out
to the presently stretched as limits
will go farther when never tested
the clipper's glide an afterthought
pledged as a blind sequel dotage
offered androgynous surface dwellers
a handout where the tunnel meets
excessive heat residual mouthwash
in a darkened preference setting
sea mambo escalades to banish
all nocturnal menu supplements
rutting with a renewed disposal
dial all the chattering party callers
to burst their lineage circuitry
before the next apartment drone
defrays the cost of empty protocol
wipers left their unseemly surging
under a cry for curious drivel claims
renewed evocative misunderstanding
in cults that waver by definition
for shark indulgence pamphlets
gone the way of dividend rehearsals
whisper their sloppy matrix buttons
hammer the new rehearsal fabric
smithing the iron to its dungeon core
while dissidents stammer vacation
breezes residential duct wipes home
to pass the vantage past fried nights
to comb a vestige over its last run
hiding old futures in the gene cleft
trying new gospels though fruition
seeds she old bones with tuna
scenes weathering the clipboard
sergeants circling the motor pool
to view the diorama speaking true
tire legends when they brag of rubber
from solitary recreation days in port
Vernon Frazer's most recent books of poetry include Selected IMPROVISATIONS, T(exto)-V(isual) Poetry and Unsettled Music. Enigmatic Ink has published Frazer's new novel, Field Reporting. Frazer's website is http://www.vernonfrazer.net Bellicose Warbling, the blog that updates his web page, can be read at http://bellicosewarbling.blogspot.com/. His work, including the longpoem, IMPROVISATIONS, may also be viewed at scribd.com. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, Frazer also performs his poetry, incorporating text and recitation with animation and musical accompaniment on YouTube. Frazer is married.
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