Backing the Printed Sound

 

allegro filters 
vanish through the carwash
          impresarios return

   an             effort
empty             by
chance         design

          to wilt

in the vagaries hatch
the crescendo avocado myth
to the sample
                      audience cage

a modem rehearsing in cursive

              *

any protrusion 
less than elegant

         reverts     to     script
         according      to        type

                                faced
     an audio 
         liter bottle
             new screws            attached

             membranes shattered

decibel recurrence              glass
as chronic problem             memories
a tonic can resolve              pitch

                sound fragments

              to find
                        and font
                                     a front

                                        that intones a reason for its back

 

 

Vernon Frazer’s latest poetry collection is Memo from Alamut. He recommends the Poetry Project at St. Mark's.

 

Edited for Unlikely by Jonathan Penton, Editor-in-Chief
Last revised on Friday, January 19, 2018 - 22:53