Vernon Frazer

An Eye in the Future

catamaran referral detergent

encomium bandage snatched

and vertical symptoms parlayed

verbal deterrents to emblems

that played against the midriff

divulging ratchets thatched

over hovel combs where bees

wane under lost honey profits

costing coaxial cradle dusters

symphonic density from losses

replayed in taverna deluxe

information beds cluster the post

whose purple voices whisper

mist in crescent tangent butter

contradicting fence engrams

hoisting ladles for caste masters

padding shadows past acquaintance

less reposed than the vortical

utterance whirling moribund

passion filters away dust moats

from castled grounds a sanctum

less renowned for savory pillage

clustered under fencing placards

awarding the continental drift

to scions of recipient massacres

holding forth on bloodline matters

while tattered hooves overheat

insurgent coals shed drumbeats

the nutrition accomplices welter

nuance threader’s amulets blank

interning its reiterations elsewhere

on fabric mounts or cashmere

paint wagons bending the round

upholding retinal stanchion patterns

to safeguard the sarcastic distress

muttered under their folded editions

plaster the vagueness of surface

depth a repartee from debt circles

entranced by bluster cling serpents

giving their slithering rhetoric circle

a withered chant for a surcharge

on implant memorabilia blinders

terminal rudders mandated facade

entreaties fashioned while pageant

ventricles heated laconic rhythms

glinted the lavender amplitude bold

as tsunami metrical flashes intent

on bearing subtitles to nutriments

where follies share chronic wear

with the grace of a burly injunction

stapling renaissance panaceas

against wicker warrior packets

subsumed under specific dread

encountered tassel vacuums

costly as any pendulum swing

asking balance to surrender

philosophers bedding in leaflets

ramped against insufferable cast

members seeking junket relief

under spiral coatings indentured

to philatelical seekers in pursuit

of the valuable rubber stamp

cattled along a cyclone riverbed

twisting wind slowly in the dark

its largesse hangs a dithering rant

under the thongs of western sun

no jolly aptitude for belonging

to saddle-thrust lapel implants

instilling greater beauty hatchers

where the norm clings redundant

vantage points through the net

receding shorelines dim facades

on banks deposed from credit

shifting its deadened avengers

to pontification clamps intoning

subterfuge glossary carnage

diameters strictly opposing all

cartilage transfers yet undone

for mailing to coastal habits

on return to edge the river

basking like a credit vendor

doing the savage remake

empty vacillations charge

the rotor bush assembled

bantam-free or noose cling

matters the past transformed

when deplaning in shamrock

or pharmacy ventricles burning

tantrum adders to the last coil

regarding hatter tics or madras

aching crow-flies bend aside

the waters running still depth

as a shallow family holiday

wherever beaches will shark

the parking attendants grin

tidal omnibus compendium lint

washed a shore to gray its beige

headlong destinies in holding

tanked from the night’s tattoo

sprees forward spread-eagled

floor rising up to face his angle

caverns opaque with meaning

jump a saddle grabber’s ride

down lucite trails to the nexus

between volcanic heat and rock

formation fireworks the sky

no past intrusions allowed

repeat badges at sentinel

watches across the pattern

shuffled mixes at first stir

a wink and then a fashion

whirl across the bandages

designed to stem the breed

of lateral phantoms raising

their dead embryo legends

no dread left an unscripted

gaze across a glued horizon

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