Balcony Seating
Axiom fashions legato
under the surrogate rain
basketing hoopla volleys.
The terrain provides its axis,
bent or tangled viola strings
clinging to stares of voila
that orchestrate the pit.
Its semblance foregone
in summer rain, praxis bares
terminal process wardrobes
for ringing expositions.
The germinal spread aroused
indignant handkerchiefs
to address conceptual mudslide barkers
cataloguing grist. A pain of
flashdance origin molts iron pits
to butterfly assembly lines
stricken with terrain too overtasked
to envelop the dance. A chance arousal
of aching dispositions shakes grain
loose from amber lanes left
among mass transitory projects
reflecting the empty queries
that nightfold inhabits. Bleary-eyed
nostril cadavers awaken.
Taking refills becomes their forced
necessity, a blanketing surcharge replies.
Cashing in the rubato buttons
down the nails. Their regaling
nugatory onslaughts build thankless denials
served on foot trays and rude dispositions
for sensing imprimatur addenda.
A lather breath agenda slots the weary
emblems, a slow balm thickens their rendition
of gruel ostinato milking the ruins while sitting
in the opera glasses of a warring balcony
threader. No calm exits to reclaim
the addition or surcharge the bailiff express,
however cruel its unending.
Crime Celebrity Unsolved
The acetate murders
left no scone unburned
when turnaround season
vexed the session masses.
Remnant spectacles wore
down the endearing tone
clef split-pitching the sky,
no sunset urning to break
the cleavage vows fashioned
among derelict yards herded
below the canyon blade.
A slice above the cutter’s edge
bastioned the fashionable
entry. A semblance overheard
the centering message, a way
to massage the foothills
yearning with their sycophants
down or worming there: crowning
an eagle epithet where wonder
never seized, yet eased to a
somehow gravy, basket running
over stitch. Legend has it
but won’t tell the coffee.
On Black Ice
Filler customs format cadenza circles
awaiting the screeching skid on black ice
and other felt sonorities. The stillness
preceding arcs of frenzy sets off a wash
of adrenalin, circuits slowly peeling
round a fast turn squared to custom matting
framed for jury duty. On the charge, no claim
forgets its reach, extending beyond
the possible in price, cash or blood its demand
among unsettled scrutinies. The scattering
clung to whatever wheel would hold the bay
later than reflex allowed. The music reaching
a grater’s scrape brought asphalt slowly to
logic. No greater sealant could clog
emotion’s leak. The bleaker the fender,
the worse the memory track, however slowed
the motion’s course. Windshield visions
shake foresight loose from door handles,
at core reeling from rubber’s burn
against uncertain surfaces calling
like the smell sticking to raw mores that bares
their lure to darkening denouements.
In a -fix
palaver conundrum throttles
rector sequential lineage facets
mottle figurine replacements
aspects divided to influence
modeled candle rector classes
under the lather tresses banding
sutures against colossal presence
adverbs -ly in the sun canning
futures influential tambourine fats
as present assets hectored
enamel past telling the color of fade
to blanched masters encased
a past tell whose -fix lies split
beyond determination hostels
a restless -ly procures a tenored
fascination rumble, nuance attached
a supplemental disdain obscured
de- (lay) partures in crayfish stuffing
arthropod mythology -fixes
in the case of over-scored repairs
rather lighting the molar mixture
conflagration the inseam shell
gamed outlet fixtures tame
as latent surrogates the possible
bottle hatchery assets encased
matter’s energy relayed -partem
coastal phonetic teams rowing
platitudes across an ingrown sea
Muttering Oaths at Loyalty
vessel ecliptic defections
climb leverage reciprocity gestures
radial tonnage ballads
under an escrow moon
pine for crossbeam decibel testers
patio masters mirror
watered deflections
through dilution’s addled roots
a source at rest
emotion knows no lattice
nor an ablative tribunal frenzy
for watercress massage
where its related ointments
affect the trilogy tablets whose casters
void past relations
Vernon Frazer has published twelve books of poetry, including the longpoem IMPROVISATIONS, and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Otoliths and many other literary magazines. His most recent books are the longpoems EMBLEMATIC MOON, RANDOM AXIS, and the visual poetry collection, Panels from IMPROVISATIONS (Series B). His web site is HERE. Frazer is married and lives in South Florida.
