Mineral Life
a token frenzied muffler tablet
left unspoken references
shattered beyond precognition
or increments of feldspar
integral coyote cards bring seltzer
to receptacles void of entry
forest obligations render buffers
sublet broken preferences unguided
as the latter meant barring all carriers
of suited replicas or androids
parking hemispheres under the ruins
a catacomb never left undone
Elevator Music for Dinner
antiphonal outlet cleaning
tenor’s aching dust a vestibule
outsourcing catapult refectories
dynamos the creative gum
or sunders the fruitful clerks
a polyrhythm transposed
for leaning ampule verities
must demand more resulting
trajectory reflecting fluid busses
beneath the humming dative
to parliament’s imperative
of leisure suit esplanade translation
a mitigation notwithstanding
a participle’s nascent thrust
its beauty appending the leisure
hum of wondering pejorative nations
where with all seems in portent
as punning streams egress
outstanding imitation vendors
feed projections of numbered
imperative subghum consortium
an alliance not to be refried
except as frozen duty bids
columnar running fluid need
redefined as sculptured vision,
for a pastry of lost artifacts
Forever Loyal
increased housewife jitters
legumes along the gumline shatter
frescoes baste the tenured shark
implicit boundaries vaguely renew
their quarry hatchers wherever
battered stories revert to legend
or dairy fixtures cascading
over slickly venturing postures
dissuade the curtains of their acrimony
certain as wary parades marching
through shadows of past distance
a future renowned as spectral luminosity
favored invidious billiard thatchers
along crated roofs where strong ceilings
plied aviary textures loosely defined
as fenestrated solicitation widows
skipping on their wavelength sweaters
disgorging imitation swindle agonies
parting with the daylong green refined
to battering scalpel watchers bearing rifts
across dead waters that thread
the cognitive poultries battered
by the rage of indolent spinsters
chattering oblong mosaic poltroons
fit as dizzy underwear linkage
storied as the latest briefing
knows no handy poltergeist hymnals
foraging lost causes for filtering ambulance
chasers straight no razor played
against the middle handcuff gentry
procedures uncurled as ancient flags
flapping their habitual breeze
Vernon Frazer has published eight books of poetry and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, First Intensity, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Miami SunPost, Otoliths, Prague Literary Review, Sidereality, Xstream and many other literary magazines. His web site is http://vernonfrazer.com/. His most recent works are the longpoems Holiday Idylling, Avenue Noir and IMPROVISATIONS, the now-completed work which he introduced in his 2001 reading at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. Frazer is married and lives in South Florida.
