Vernon Frazer

After the First

the fire 

quenched, its membrane burst

internal 

wiring as penalty granite a lineage 

of long

cigars, the stench 

staining worse than 

a turmeric rumor

the whim of its liminal synergy

charged both ways at once

a binary extension grounded

in variance, manic against

its ties,

teeth clenched as dental metaphor

ride 

the outburst filling the first frame

cinematic verity not required

at the low-down hinge grate

action fainting permitted

when tassel caps allure

the restriction gate print

a plural 

to ply the energy from its rank 

epithet

before the cost of first mitosis

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Deliberating the Endgame

potassium jury terrors regurgitate

somnolent incandescence to heat

denomination scandals demonized

politely as their svelte turned acrid 

while repeating sample massages 

in passages unlit no message left

to guide defectors in error or patent

shoes longing to wade the subject

disabled the water cresting revelation

a tentacle rite distending vision leak

diffused the segue to ruddered drift

reaching ecliptic parameters gestured

desperate claw repetitions making

lawful their surrogate luster melt

on wry pastries icons bent ironically

overgrown to the seed of wilting
where revising terror medleys blast 

mustard sharks with rude apparatus

the marmalade montage blinked

a cascade bringing fury to saloons

proudly recapitulating night terrors

before dead wagons turned portable

whiskey transport dividend clusters

brown as weathered tassel fugues

caught up in climactic lift incursion

marches past tailor threads shoed

to market forces place the course

evenly spread crude border entities

activate the rippling flashes burned

across wood and concrete and glass

to slice the longed-for cleft and mutter

incendiary comments on slow release

sought as a rift in diversionary tactics

once equally practiced on bland futons

old springs creaking near the landing

above their lowering urge to include

bathysphere art forms that interfere

with every clearance modem clang

steeping its mercurial transit clusters 

with dyspeptic shark appellant mix

whose rebound cluster no aficionado

could translate into the coral findings 

where tantrum clusters delete fixation 

loose hatcheries impel a nominal delay

slow breath encumbers clothing tone

teeth chatter closing hair ensembles

behind their grins’ disappearing luster

the relics gum near periodontal land

whose water left them cresting tide

in toned motes delivered as modes

assigned to scrubbing their passion-

pitched aspersions laced with cheese

when no admonition ruptured faster

than either heat or light can breathe

wrong personification charts gone nodal 

as the surgical extremities of inventory 

tonsil thrillers turned prehensile longing 

to official grip wagging tailored dogs

before the sniffing poltroon decree

seals the seldom seen gripped between

the levered hands gone rounded leather

ceiling fans seek the fevered progeny 

that ground-seeking news will storm  

past the varicose rims of the horning

cartilage poppers mowing slow retreat

lodes refining their own scalar pattern 

the repetition stilled one turning past 

the agate fold enumerated at the offset

bleeding putts through lowered stitches

while marginal estuary blockers lack

the seminal impediments sequestered

in the moving tint of generation vipers

writhing against the horizontal sunset

to beckon the resounding messages

from the ancient veterans resembling

the wary farces of their lost protocols

crackling brittle as the kindle would

rise while darkening the interior view

encases required renovations that vary

the call to release their shaken umber 

from the padding charts that vessel

perturbed underlining at vesicle stops

denied the innovative transport view

snaking eyes dart across the tabular

vein stricken clumsily implied grace

as a well-worn tunic bled naugahyde

lard over the noon shedding caskets

to summer bulged in waiver saloons

where baskets lumber their shreds

under the faintly lasting motor itch

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