Vernon Frazer
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Returning Oddity
under
the penumbral glimmer
the mysteries assume
voltage cries mystic exit polish
when
surface holsters
break
the simmer from the holding strain
*
the rocks between
hold the current crashing
tunnel pores
where returning legends
somewhere
home
plunder
the crevices offered as price
before the crisis can preface
rebuking the crux with a muttered epithet
*
electric cleavage
leaves the mythical anomic
as the charge
settles with returning absence
to a presence
forgotten till grayed
simmering desire
a toupee turned feathered
as old tales told
of iron fists at sea
Solo Cocktail at the Party
barrier olive
wet with its own pretense
rides
a tangential differential
a rim
of ocean
a lip
of caffeine
lateral damage col-
lectured rampaging
change of attitudes
talk pays itself a boaster’s wage
*
pay is cheap
in the rural latitudes
where spherical ointments persevere
longitude making its cross-statement
into the pit
faces its
dereliction
a dutiful plummet
to the bottom line
short on money to
ride the lift back
from a social well
-being all wet but
empty water
over salt
its best sip
If Not by Land
a desert
lost across the prairie of words
palabraic intent
launches a cross-bow safari
continental returns adrift
the seaport uplifts an empty
semaphore
lighthouse
returns
the darkness
an upgrade
assuaging
fainted lighting fixation
an alabaster taunt
making a dry run wet
as a colonic fuselage
intersections blooming
cross routes on disconnect