Vernon Frazer

Their Way

sea clef

egrets in hot pursuit

the pilloried moans beget a slow wind

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crowd murmurs surround

PISO MOJADO in triplicate birth

seeds no wandering melon 

to patch it or reply

the medley of desert songs

pangs of wishful sinking

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a bounding pre-sense

grounds melodic transfer 

regrets too few to many

its way the longing

bereft of remaining heat 

chills the breezy stockade faces 

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wet floor mirth dreams

filled the hanging eyes

implicated in the rumor

wired dawnings 

darken solarium dreams

white wings

too few chased to many regrets

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Weighting Light

  

gossamer flight incumbents

lighten their mural panacea fling

before the sunset trail darkens

noon apparitions feeding time

its survival capsules bare nutrients

for the caustic daring the shadow

an eclipse worthy of its own delay

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reptilian forecast dreams 

braille narratives untongued 

or touched 

sunlight clings tightly to a shadow

apparition themes fail sharp white

stinging the blood surface breeze

a spectrum slowly moves array home

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weight returns an encumbrance

to the tightened cling of rail fabric

overboard terrors no dry-dock

the sting of sight’s curling smell 

retracted ethereal commentaries

sidebars glimmer shifting skin

to favor tongues of the nightly bound

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Wintering Discontent

neon diphthong plasma templar

formal cats below the surfeit

feral entrails notwithstanding

lissome girder reflux passage 

rendered sterile output settlers 

reprimand enabling dilettantes 

to discover fuselage counters 

at subnormal rumination levels 

implosion bricks at the surface 

engine declensions lost track 

searching for precision nouns

verbing the action thrillers past 

a nonchalant detection wiper 

patterning the nattering chorus

carpal subtonal diffusion clings

to brooding ties as a bar strategy 

blinking cocktails moon decay 

flattens prospectors sorting pyrite

left to gravel pans a gavel’s heft

normal though proclaiming clarity 

doldrums shelled beyond horizon 

the plural intentions of steamboat 

philosophies delay the motorcade’s 

long panegyric wrenching modality 

conflicts nodal aperture wagons 

moving all the alabaster patrons 

past their due time spent scuttling 

prey to python intermission dens 

pitted against new modular scales

while forking tongues greet scams

the travel hefts the menu in delay 

to fronton circuits lobed enough 

to mind the stored matter’s energy 

from one refreshed cliche another

renewal less deadened with green 

clatter horns envy yowling breakage 

bumps grumbling through the night

a horror to scents around leaflets

burgeoning scaffold patterns at sea

calypso veritas windings portrayed

throughout the garbanzo vernacular

no global warning of the slither word

coming through the coping portal

adamantine strictures running slope

embargoes where the weary hatchet 

fled the cargo fleet stumbling numbly

cultivates ellipsis gardens for frosting

ardent legends seek urban homes

to hold neatly-fashioned splashes

the core warren where tables multiply 

heliocentric renditions of deficit dinners 

octagonal root suppliers ratify hutches

floating packets wine gap wrapping

concealed hunches from the vesicle 

parting the wall crunches to bevel

crossed haunches launching a stir

among the stenches of jostled fabric

stirring residual declamation scars

dominion-ready apertures disregard

cuspidor removal tantrums growing

sapient ventilation rockers unpacked

belongings under water removal hoses

racked for any fuselage interpretation

mustered under piquant uplift shears

refractory lighting no custard matter

flustered right where the eminent pall

cast off thousands formerly regarded

as dispensation for adders puffing 

moccasin tablets to spoon addicts

dripping leather-veined catacombs

brachiating a  fractured melody loom

spinning cartilage mimicry casings

wherever stolen luminaries hide gold

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