"Fendered Bluster," "Mastering the Universe at Last," and "Khan Man After Xanadu"
Fendered Bluster
energized
along its coded frequency
transmission
gears
clutch
the carburetor frenzy
kicked back in time or too
as fossils move
the present toward
another
gift unknown
*
supercharge or sur-
its title the price of energy
bucks its will
even gets fiscal
amid the scattered masses
a doldrum erupts
a hushed line forms its mutter
then
waits
*
the backdrop surges
sputter
forward fuming
emission
come unglued
attack of the weather bandits
no fuel left
for them
to discharge
brings threats
of rain
that end
with rubber clouds
Mastering the Universe at Last
think primordial green
budgeting a sensual a cappella
pestilence advisors
desist in hard peccadillo flagstone
end marquees
refund a decimated vector
*
the hard relaxation
many off thinking clocks,
reprieve the velvet rondo
panegyric refund advisors
appeal storied reciprocity enlistments
peepshows
tiffs
wrangles
refute an urchin chill
eastern reflexes detonate
the vacant
artery dredger
the drink cleavers employ lighthouse charm
*
postal dockets lost a panel
its bombardment baffled the new cartel
(steel portfolio verbatim)
their peepshows
render used thongs, “easy“
cannily intervene
whether calling secures
receding diversions ricochet
skillet failure
costly rash
flatfish-haired
turned disquiet
redeeming gabardine retirement
Khan Man After Xanadu
jissom stretchers
will seek a timeline remedy
emoticon streaming
in fashion
its passion meant
a vendor button
blundered its viscount scales
incendiary decimal visions
procured
at the neighboring
happenstance occurred
as a nightly pleasure domed
a creed
in lurch mode
lumping
any lecher willing to come
in for a pass
-ing stream
as an imagined rather
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Vernon Frazer’s latest poetry collection is Voyage in Port. He recommends the Poetry Project at St. Mark's.