Tracking Back



a nodal boudoir

not sham city’s clergymen

                        moves 



that            the scrotal passports

past           paintbrush embassies use



       rivalry elms

       

              that illustrate

               

                       hospice doorsteps



as dreadfully central to the crusty

listeners

               or businessmen

                                          pressed



                              hierarchical pain moves



                                                       handle arterial law



                       *



platform darkness

enormous clearings retract                          parted

      horizontal linguists                                 coldly

                                           laurels deleted



               the chaotic bothers line up

               under credit 

                                   about to fold



                                              without improvements



                   to draw boutique silks forward

                        an ensemble moves a straight      

                             bedtime workshop for array at

                          a raucous epidemic

                          watchdog to a linen sighting

                          depending on tailors

                                      

                                                 or impostors

                            wearing

                                          orchestrated

                                                               throwbacks



                                                         for the volcano racket

                                                             



Home  in the Distant




dollar tone filters reprieve

the passing rubber collisions 

measured and padlocked



the doldrum forsaken

as empty light darkening

epithet winds to the left



dumpster visionaries eat

modicum filters without fuming

over a fiscal meat current



doorbells remain a bare looming



transmission haunts return 

whirling against a vernacular test

the wig suck of shrill beer 



test serpents haunt a downside

vernacular heading bare memories 

other fuming acclamations ring



downhill to undulate the comeback






Old Grouches Eating Early Bird Diner





lava withdrawal burnt slow invective

while sciatica released stark alliteration 

sentry patrimony sparked a spectacular 

daylight moratorium firecrackers withheld

pulsations darkened a rectangular pastime

the crossfire jubilee ripped worn rudiments 

cornered the crumpled muffler caresses 

where a convocation of balding hairlines

gradually receded in their lifetime hut

no flesh rescinded elastic calorie alerts

backing a mayday growl the creature 

gone latent for some weaker principle

graphite-hot during the midship crawler

colored the flashy convocation failing

informally made gaseous duets ache

swamp clearance opposing separation

despite sorting the patrimony lithographs

another crossfire bouncing underway

and not the neutron spurt a turn renewed

sunshine worshippers leaking rudiments 

after shops eased everything catalytic

lagoon revenge boiling electrical blubber 

stuttered northward torn and metallurgic

timber outlines chafed worn inquiries

a cowl scraping punctual crisis disposal

no phosphate lanyard about to revive

unctuous pablum filters pretzel timber

the mosaic wife handling dead family

on a churn for hard trundling dentures

ladled sciatica spurts handicraft torn

between aching and explaining fear

atonal opera bubbled elusive pudding

for mutineers crumbling the tower price

before revelry welled solar betrayal





BIO


Vernon Frazer has published more than thirty books of poetry. Many of the individual poems have appeared in periodicals such Alien Buddha, D.O.R., eYeland, Otoliths, Plain Brown Wrapper and SYNCHRONIZED CHAOS. Frazer has also published three books of fiction, three recordings of jazz poetry and numerous multimedia videos, available for viewing on YouTube.