magisterial jalopy threader
through pencil sturgeon regrets
turned anaphoric as it scaled
the breadline herd embargo
detailed on the cross-fly burner
corrugated liver bandits drop
fad repellent on fresco tidings
churned upward notions to core
a fixture of bursting lassitude
whose emotional focus parlayed
a locus misplayed at the border
stretching a sloppy dread word
plate across the tonic fulcrum
to focal grammar omnibus throttles
tensile urgency bets the locus
chronic as a frontier platelet drop
on a strapping welter kettle
enumerated passing charges due
to the crowing largesse throwing
amplitude crossings to logistics
while carburetor refill memoranda
cross-stitched in the telling role
would scroll any sonic pledge
about dismissing fast legends
and pastime gropers on the clay
growing vestigial latitude thunder
gassing the horse clamp matrix
dotting the crossed aisles hot
under the collard graze tossed
casually underfoot to nettle
the beckoning wreckage song
a campfire of monster havens
dressing the maven for the still
ample desuetude reckoning
movement toward the banister
tracing a slow barrage sampler
circling every bottle press
refilled as nightly catacomb
on profile status left a haven
upended when loam scattered
lightly as the patina shed honed
price vendors their lower sanity
slowly shredded as cost butchers
scaling the plains in vertical silt
or deltoid plaster paling before
their chemical entreaties confess
the pale faces hiding failed rapture
capture analogy paupers' lost rage
against the groaning pabulum
tracing the past frontier westward
go the wagons hoe-trenched muster
not included in the latest gasp
or fractured humor of the telling
resistance to reciprocal bread lines
welling around the castoff enchilada cult
their swelling members dotting spiny
fuselage cantata tides when oded forms
revert to slow replacement type
or choice of glow deferred up front
despite the envoy prattle jagged
as a forefront bender at high tide
premier dotage on a stated flank
risen over railroad crossing signs
platinum bandaid removers twitch
octagon lessons in primate fonts
withheld for otter practice at three
centrifugal locations across the whirl
of tantrum buttons speaking things
unseen through bladed window slats
conditional upon abrasive receipt
no pituitary functioning acquired
positional replacement winners
festive as altitude vigor applies
volatile quadruped imperative
signals foreground declension tiles
replicating organ's feldspar lyrics
a homily gritted past the knowing
speckle fracture posting notice
against wind surface on low heat
implanted its rigorous runaround
retention a water not yet hot
or filled with yardage crossings
neatly fit meeting dates intervene
berating nightly declaratives
grounding oasis narratives to
fountain mirage enclaves ridden
while a camel-backed montage
intones detonation proceedings
reversed at birth when death proves
Inapplicable to corsage nightmares
coasting florid ousters designation
enigma rents its torrid fuselage
carrion knowingly spent on horrid luggage
bait entrapped under climate remover
turned cynical as feral isomer drunks
reproving glands where all yearning
bands to the climbing variable pit
no matter or match for the truculent
slavering over barreled edges rolling pit
turned bitter disdain to cantata hatred
pouring fourth glass frost gathered
lather passing found rejects down
replay chutes to retribution fantasia
plastered across a merriment of stars
edging gallows to pledge the needy
a final offering heavy as a light year
motor fillets accosted under street maps
mitten huffers have deported their truffles
neatly adapted to accosting membranes
regardless of the bleary-eyed hypotenuse
angling for a more slanted bargain test
wetter than the tangled target mutter
enclosed in vent-proof organ data
colder than a scaffold barge in glitter
nights embraced a caviar platelet
assuming guilt in oral quarter fashion
handily exposed as liminal duress
while coasting past its last transition
toward a reborn casing turned bridal
when the tidal suite flooded envy charts
over matter hiding its energy barge
the myth that embraced cold storage
coral aftermath
shoal goddess addenda myth
taken
writhing pockets wring
award clingers all well-heeled
a path to raft
an agenda hidden before the shoring
packets faced
tidal envy swelling to keel
shaken
as any new salt
peppered till the embryonic
picture
awakened
the wall that rose and clock work
bring the means that suddenly called
water happiness force controlled
the boy began three times
concise detour criminal green
on every step observed
gate and ends inquired the backs
precious mountain of fire
yelled for additional stones
held fast to the bow
anything else ate the conquest
even the fire suggested electronically
advancing commerce powder
glimpses the penknife monarch
handsome in dank shoes
on a quality steel building
passed over with whispered legs
before disclaimers arrived
orders thanked glass deathbeds
to say the conquest missed battle
Vernon Frazer's most recent books of poetry include T(exto)-V(isual) Poetry and Unsettled Music. Enigmatic Ink has published Frazer's new novel, Field Reporting. Frazer's web site is VernonFrazer.net. Bellicose Warbling, the blog that updates his web page, can be read at BellicoseWarbling.blogspot.com. His work may also be viewed at Scribd.com. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, Frazer also performs his poetry, incorporating text and recitation with animation and musical accompaniment on YouTube. Frazer is married.
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