In the Face of Prophesy
Portico inlets,
an amulet running across
the glide, turn
pivotal, assembling amber,
bend against a cross-breeze,
double the faced contingent
relentless
as the oracle’s release.
A bargained future
seeds the sun’s denial again.
Putting aside
they yearn for the years of absence
Over Time and Over
Vintage osprey vouchers
warmer than charming the chant’s
release from older play
Sunset criminals blanched,
past thoughts storming their
memoir displacements.
a guidance ridden past
glimmer returns on transit buttons
lost to simulation envy
or torrid re-ploys. Storied
defensive crouches last bought
replacement declamation
stanza retreats under pine.
Hooves lacking casement stacks
the weight of pasted shores,
where their emblems retreat.
Alarming casements at the breach
shatter to spear-shaped tangents
Open Mike Night
Showtime.
Broiled
aspirations mix
the boiler
with the grotto
cakes, where mixtures inflame
their surrogate intent. Fashioned,
amperage hostels soil a sotted
marker
where stalagmites render
vertical dicta
oiled to extremities. Hostage
to vindictive platelets owning
slow count massacre pebbles,
blood templates
a slow merger volley
foiled as an exit. The plenary
entrapment tentacles finished
blending tracheal pentameters:
Encore.
Electric Response
Hostile drams buoy the critical front
when castor enamels the polished hint
under surcharge by measure or faction.
Tenders suiting the molt, voltaic
as rifled conundrums, shoot bolt locks
where the font develops, mounting
casuals tied to arabesques that haunt
the delayed pixel. Their tarnished inquiry
crams it full of primitive but effective
surplus candor, vying for the mist
where doldrums envelop their parallel form.
Stifled panels expand their stock
responses to inventory clatter,
smelling the weary voltage, there
to measure its cynical jolt.
Subgum Crematorium Blues
on the wicker dance, trembling
sidelong stickers. Wild consumers
irrigate the smell while telling
fructose bandana masters to roust
the portable ousters from their
restorable kitchen memorabilia
takes. Sunshine rumbles shade
squash geranium mantras under
closed sandpile delegations,
a nattering priority no matter
how the sunset sails. Below
the chancing ambulant flickers,
the wary wastrel turns its slotted
ingots to marvel pillories cast
on stone. Pantry frolics learn
bracket memoirs, fastidious
charms crackling under scent
or knowledge. If the collage
presupposes bandit fasteners,
bleed colloids to lexicon grabbers.
The pantry should sell its longing
before the staples recede.
Fluid Passage
tidewalk calypso verities
boar the stammer button release
where glamour extinguished
last lighting and shorter
amenities before the throttles
withheld from reckoning
push back additional wishes
well before lakeside remedies
condition the gander reflex
a blithe cast repellent
mixtures tensile baggage stickers
impel as surgeons launder
aviary futures veiled sunsets
podcast delirium sanctions repeal
rhythm acrostics past dawn
Shoring In
Coral incursion
cineplex the portable breeze
Rotor capsules tarnished
depot bottoms to transpose new piers
through scarves and turnkeys
Umbrella transmuters
oblong easily, mute azaleas
where night deposits
longing forebears to simplest
in loaders amassing transit
Switch and Bait
Enduring cuneiform hostels
precede riptide adagio markers
at spoon-fed nuptial bargains
retailing for passion welts.
Bleeding vessels on the half-turn
quadrant elastic benefactors.
Cradle sausage outcomes
link classic montage to organs
peddled beyond particle control,
boards left to swell the weary
from outcome. Passages geared
to mass assumption platters
all the lather benefits aside:
modular isotope rerun fragments
swarming under a sea of lassitude,
reproductive enchilada figures
not occluded as precept blotting.
As devolution confounders
return their attitude to flailing
the rounded passage, no matter
the pursuit, recruiting unturned
centuries past the last entry
burns conical jeremiad holders
scarred during the boldest fetish
on rampage strata. Clover hocks
repeal the latest data fork, unsealed
as curtains shock when forced
to appeal themselves to the luring.
Ancient History Under Renovation
Lady Godiva arthropods
the colonoscopy sweepstakes
aching in their swollen shade,
a mathematical exactitude
exploding on an ambushed request.
The half-shell verbatim entry
peeks at the height of its credenza,
a drawing room overture
dispelling the leaks of fortune
where pipe fossils abdicate
the known. The lost texts surface
below a cognitive appellation
yet unnamed. Taming its
meticulous follicle crescent
preserves the cursor's montage
from leaving aperture crust
along the bevel. A cupola resister
swells level with the surge,
aching panaceas fading to leaflets
grander than archaic vernaculars.
Under ancient fertility tractors,
registers clash the surcharge clang
to dust braids hanging brash
as a lettered handmaid scatters
intestinal druid carapace
over the fritters passing as crew.
Up Ending
Colorectal pancake strata
souvenirs for the guideline finish
an apparatus long delayed
under suture toward wind chime follies
or near pellagra under the verdigris
chanting reversal polish unclued
for leaking the stratagems liking
their fossil line of facile stripes
and lewd conundrum stickers
potted along the patio tables
a disarray whose jonquil precedents
rummage tranquil overture clues
stabbing the back acid ladle
a quest for greater meaning
in the starts that finish the race
Vernon Frazer has published fourteen 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), and the ebook *, available on Scribd. His web site is http://vernonfrazer.net. Bellicose Warbling, the blog that updates his web page, can be read at http://bellicosewarbling.blogspot.com/. Frazer is married and lives in South Florida.
