Vernon Frazer
Murder Getting Away
1.
sonic epithets
torrid with bitter repetition
frame
the corval autumn
millennial simulacra
scented polymer magic
scripting foreclosure
animated jackals
cry wolf at a destiny winter
seasons butter
a gerbil’s dim innuendo
to flight
implosions caw near the thicket
2.
audacity spectrum
the glimmering gradient shading
a slow light, blue
vibrato a mirrored reflection
seasonal imprint
turning a collage
changes the day
to a howl
past its approach
coming frost
carries an echo back
3.
the murder repeats
a carport’s gray insinuation
then flies south
past the background harvest
intangible pheremones
to sphere within music
the awkward cause
of squawking off-balance
a signal
the flight a solo
stuck in its caw
crackling a low note
like foliage
left for summer flossing
Fiddling the Empire
runic warden
attuning to the desert
fog ellipse
omitted
the sullen vector
a swollen tunic
suddenly turns
to its hectic
relay
the soundburst
disrobed
geothermal modem passions
before cholesterol explosions
burning hectic pleasure
calls worse than its dis-
robing eclipsed bearing
glyph reduction technique
rubbing against rock
a message dulling a
sign signfied silence
when the sector
yearning cobra passion
struck
a deal
replay sounds
to shake
a sonic measure stoned implosion
protests an erosion growing wider
than the surfeit charged
Reunion Classed
the professed schemer
watches devastation escalate
a bare nothing waterfall
throwing
cosmetic made slush
at whatever window
dim boosts a confidence
new moving every quart
low
reunion approaching
disrepair
totaled a thespian best
hairbrush worn sideburns
noxious voiceover
swollen with patois elision
lying in signal bandana
the spotlight derailed a curtsy runner
ts invective mirage covered the offers
in curse settings
natal wits included
acoustic endurance
here the body puddle hippies
quarrel
so futon pamphlets lost
the stationmaster left
enough lobby to lower
the ambient wilding
replication
steaming toward
the acid statistician
a retrofit sycophant
muscles a metamorphosis
and compounded a footmark opus
slow literature
legged the publisher’s gloried sealant
After Closing Time
a tonality smooch
fibers its lavish fusspot
fawns
the angular raise
a beauty tuning the forehead
elastic temptations
uttered in a motorway second
with boardwalk heartbreak
laughing
ugly disposition
borrowed a livid half-life
where readers surrender
the sequential alongside
a pituitary brass heritage
lacking bassoons dangles pinions
threadbare mobsters delayed
a check-in refits near cartons
shipping assault declaimers
under a rink portent
where thickened partnership
climbs lateral horizon the urgency
abundant
didgeridoos fuss a thrashing whizz
under tailback
attracting a radio cougar
where nunneries repatriate
condiment brass
mantra clangers
samovars decoy
monolithic predicates
to enjoy percussionist plateaus
momentary visionaries
rendered their rooftop leaps
genetic flux
eagled profiting
                                    then inebriated checkmate
Holed up at the Nineteenth
a curare duffer
links predatory trapper vans
appended roughly
pinned a curtain past a fixed eye
its removal less likely than sight
no matter the the cut of the spear
trapped sand
goes nowhere but dessert
awaits the end
as liquor in the rough
carts diversion stains
to closet pantry motif
afforded a catacomb visage train
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no plied hole left untried
or draped as tired remnants
plaid as egos ply the gear
logarithm candle eyes
replied tough but handily
the cards penciled in
nascent fury
moves discursive bluffing
trapped hands
turned camaraderie toxic
gruff remarks grew slurred
last hand eager to drain
too grainy to lift the finishing glass
Vernon Frazer’s latest poetry collection is Gravity Darkening.
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