Saturday, July 20, 2013

Three Poems by Vernon Frazer

Lesson Teaching Postures


conscious appliance, tutorial banner
reticent as blue dismay left unturned

a diffident shrugs a protest of measure

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sibilant outcry hissing the mark at left
political sunscreen, melanoma dismissed
as retribution fee for deeds left unscaled

the measure a corollary token of protest

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its manner hefts an unstated disarray 
into limbo pits gnarling treasured rugs
that lay paling while their dye drained

into the gnashing alarm pit clusters

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through a beauty better left unseen
the carafe pours ambivalent carnage

the mustered fit’s true disdain its craft





Leverage Left Behind




rotisserie divisors
a nightmare’s insouciance

apparel maneuvers
delayed
quadrant pressure
replayed

devising a fulcrum passage

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leverage disdains advice
when fragments measure
the weight of the cornered 

pellagra dynamo
turned epiglottal remnant
in chaste pursuit

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a parallel conundrum nexus 
ramps past a breathing exit




Delayed Landing



scoring a transfusion 
adage brackets liminal badger 
retention before vestige passes 
rocket their gloried centrifuge 
backing enables chancing 
where collateral castors renewed 
bracket hunters against versions 
aching tinted refrains 
a windowed agate view below 
its aching mileage demands
encyclopedic transfusion mixture
fueling exhaust to the last fume
until surface room slowly urges
gloomy servants upward 
to stitch harness emulators a racquet 
dance interval pageants 
turned angular
as the padding lecture 
that braced pseudonym prefects 
for larceny thatches 
stormed umbrella rain parcels 
left there to digit 
or defy odd betting 
when razors turn nasty tables 
into lapel fiber formally tired
indigo merchants to the contrary
malediction a forethought 
entry to mop steamed futon leakage
assembly parts careering 
wider than a stolen luxury on vacation
all filler removed from the apron
doubting the consequence of truth
as matter transforms its energy
to patrons bearing stamped rubbers
approval sealed against outcome
patchouli shores inflect their diction
where outlets stumble 
their couriers left magi 
to fill the mountain tadpole 
libertine footage inquest phenomena 
purged the guessing narrative 
impediment screens that charge 
impact cross-gifted
as revelatory addenda sputum
protocol left unvarnished 
teal immigrants who lubricate 
large intervals warm stations roam
through lethargic mandibles 
torn to frenzy polish a glad-hand 
routing the distention current south
no admixture left as appointed 
or fixed against the diction lid
a splenetic half-time differential
waving the mast bandit’s disguise
against a clipper wind offshore
in search of reelection boners
clinging free to covert beach flares
flashing red against the night
their mirrors held in low stead
on bombast circuits 
aching maple badinage 
when diffusion bracelets turn 
vapor appellants to nostril flattery 
in vortical descent glands
refusing patronage ousters loosely
before the form delays infusion
costly elements raking in 
rebound cash throttles 
motorcade swagger
leather struts 
impending gloom
or untied rumors 
to lash the ripple
inflections darken the passage
to empty tamale gestures 
tempting a tedious outcry 
piƱata to lessen puncture wounds 
left for dread
against the guarded cornucopia 
reminiscent table music buried
and calypso quarantined 
adages disjointed vantage evaporated
a thatch of gadget facilitators 
mentoring the distention clauses 
that sweltering ventricles align
after radish polarities 
that felt the root of betrayal 
rotting soil when replacement fertilizer 
stocks rebound analogues 
of soot betrayal
the fledglings cling the most 
to the fringe 
of an empty pledge
no matter bituminous ornament
cling fibers again wedged there 
for the aching thread 
turned bare as a mackerel platter 
tape offsets the disguise 
of a plain sight’s hide
ridden ambiguous circle clatters
beyond the charted plains 
drift pontificating larger hand manuals
during confessional screening
rooms for rent 
at an hourly rate
that rested labels find applicable
to plasma threaders 
on cell break 
lingering where legends impinge
categorical declaratives 
on repose or ventilate 
their silent subterfuge
to mixed castes in mid-production
the flight delayed 
its captive urge
pontoons held its landing at bay

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Vernon Frazer is a regular contributor to this blog and has appeared in all AlteredScale.com issues thus far, and will appear in AS 4, out in September.

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