Back in the Back Alley Again
a burr voice gaffes before turbo
numbed the palette splattered
brighter thesaurus vacant work
ampules tired raw rationalists
caught fending off raffle talk
encouraged the locution play
grating as cracks encase
a retrofit pudding missing
fallacious heating on feel
a defiant management factotum
the visible simulacrum recumbent
a Againfireball hazard ripped shelters
replication when torpor looking
forwards a dimmer sinkhole glimpsing
a fertilizer conundrum sprocket
the wet hesitation painter wanted
behemoth incendiaries unsprung
neighbourhood chokers brim over dice
Cooking Up a Recipe
the best blend shows tread
making a grist walk meringue
its shortfalls churn lavender
seeking constricted outputs
wherever toxic peril returns
to the tablespoon mechanic
thinning his impetigo cufflink
before the signature premise
foretells a transit separation
that plated its tin pan axiom
when a volcano getting sticky
turned rock to breath garment
addled the metastatic past
where the missing seascape
became an isolate outrage
handed one vantage transit
wigwam larva grated fine
the equinox a tin simulacrum
privately nautical while frenetic
crosswind photos loom
slow gallops churn lap wings
hallucinogenic parka their logo
welcome lifeboats cure their legacy
brimstones steal bronzed glory
typewriter militants ghost wherever
straight words pocket enjoying
clatter supplication enchantment
no mezzanine sidestep set
their drone to preferences
luncheon still imposed before
moustache broadcastings push
migraine persuasion to the many
the foodstuff not big repentance
Living Under the Underfoot
the lizards left them air
their one turn stolen slowly
sure as any tired ampule
raw reverberation grabbing
its four gumline carriers
no marsh grinned an emu pocket
boarder allegory shaken
provoked a pocket waltz
reversing when crystalline
health made raw luncheon
a binary skid to meteor storm
its luminary air confinement
tinted later broadcasts forward
issued in from topic sealant
intrepid milkmen ever vacant
believe a sun of debtor brims
that swelters lachrymose in
the sinkhole curriculum errata
no handshake grifter enrolled
the venom tries insider transit
its woe swelling reptilian haze
Hosting from the Audience
talk radio raves
against a papal simulacrum
no bull
intended
at the cattle orifice
lowing the limbo record
referenda suffrage below intent
no blue
orchid streaming laser lines
a spectacle of faith
caught loafing with camera fish
hinting udder cleavage
slyly styled
under the camera
waving dreams
below passage
aching bent over
black
stocking net
fish
breath
leering
the vicarious dream of a neutered pantomime
Vernon Frazer has written more than thirty books of poetry, three novels and a short story collection. His poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, First Intensity, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Miami SunPost, Muse Apprentice Guild, Sidereality, Xstream and many other literary magazines. He introduced IMPROVISATIONS at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in Manhattan.
Working in multi-media, Frazer has performed his poetry with the late saxophonist Thomas Chapin, the Vernon Frazer Poetry Band and as a solo poet-bassist. His jazz poetry recordings and multimedia work are available on Youtube.
Frazer resides in central Connecticut. He is widowed.
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