No Loving Conversion Likely


the stuttered transaction

buff grows bright to give



                   more islet heating



a saturation foundation

          matriarch occlusion

below



          that loud enchilada

          snoring earless to soot



     vary a metier 

     surround the disease 



                      classification trampling





                                  (  )



		

leotard peninsulas

warmly recumbent

honed caliper men



              a monogram portent

              their hierarchical tipster measured



                        loose bits dark



  left to suffer a confused nodal portent



            quaking derision



                                       discharging the swipe





                                  (  )





then saturation thanks

before its brewers fin a winger                 

     of cultural radish



                  bent appointment ventures

                  aching the succulent droop



          perplexity encouraged grated theocracy



                                  to

                                  a reclusive vertigo 



                      its intended folly

                      watching for histories deferred






Hard Water



intimidating laundry

the inimical peasants cast

of thousands pored



            per square inch



raging 

           the shallow intimate

           through 

                        forced declamation



               rum vagaries inept

               at transfer flagons



           no lantern 

                            comes

                                         too soon





                     *



  for                     comfort



           wonder



               or

     

            winter



           allowed 

  

     a sneaky pastime

     remembered cleanser scent

     last, the shaded

                      

          horde of hinting

               elation

                          eking

fast line gorges

along the marrow plane



                     *



the lines converge

it surges its bone-sucking orgy



on wandering

crescents wet yet divergent





           as

               any

                     angle



           strike



bragging 

empty pleasantries



     soft

     as the sand 

     in the river 



                        wash



cackled 



              inimical tidings 



                                        to the current





Dropping the Ball


      1.



a pelota 

simulacrum for raffle 

            or rescue



included venom throttles



     toned scraping 

     exploded uses



              sycophantic

              as the empty grip



baring shaken 

before their metaphor blazer



     a retrofit lunatic 

     steaming a fetal caddy rim

     forking tunnels



             alongside usage latrines 



where distention refusals 

prolonged postponing belligerents



     dispose 

                   thermal cacophony 

     educate 

                   natal gaffe dragons



           to their vocation



                 2.



before encrypted withdrawals 

ferment the dubious underlings

their ballad affiliates will breed 



              forever 



                           express bristles

                           barter the groping circuit



              grimly

    

                           dissimilar to a wilding rant

                           the expectorant a missing 



                                       deuce voice 

                                       borne recumbent 



                             to a confrontation statesman      



                 3.



the nautical scaffold

turns finished landscape

     firing

   

             generation textile crises 

             before experienced play   



                  pelota comes                

                  horned in caramel



umber broaches

a scripted eventuality



     puddle hippies 

     cow the slipping pineal

                           at will



weakened entity feels the hollow



         tinted around

         its invective mirage



            missing suffer throttles 

                 in the simulacrum cushion loop

                 no raffle no rescue



face 



        the collective punctuality

                         

                                                of tomorrow





Snake Oil Enforcers


legacy doctors 

interrogate every mamba wrapper

labor no return 



buttress knots missing gluten



wrapper heading

crosses murals at the pablum bar

no fortitude express 



hooting a salami fortress



better left

for saying rather than

turn right



under the riot of interrogation 





Railing Toward Shore



bugbear vignette

slowed the scoreboard snatching

corpulent railways



spine borders

a garbled eyelash plunging to color

dangle hazing



the bartenders

waged paramour encroachments

pillowcase doubling



vigor fountains

trip a yawning mound prosaic

the nitwits climb



defeatist vigor

strata antler whereabouts

gleam the past



no serpentine

linguist scratches effervescent

on moonlight



tattle regimen 

near the summation unveiled

a feldspar lecture



essay finalist

a bicoastal maniac rose

flatly baffled



before waterline

plunges breed the convectional


foreground rise







BIO

Vernon Frazer’s most recent publications are Avenue Noir, a C22 Open Edition, and Gulf of the Purple Enigma, an Alien Buddha paperback.