poems || Vernon Frazer

Flashback Memory


Tough to beat
on a corona sled, the shadow 
play a foregone distance

emptied. Past vacuums surface.
The girth of brittle isotopes configures

a stretched face 
turning after ancient shards
to recast

radio amulet discharge placement

where heat weathers
turbines that spin pontoon nostalgia,

withering memory rotors 
roughened under the deadening pace
to a moving instant: gone



Trinkling Toward a Twilight


an aching
pendant lingered past the sun

a random number slowly chosen

when shaking matter
relies exclusively on digital
memories 

spoken through twining nails

a solace seeking its elsewhere
foundation birth or founder shell
a riff on rifting granite

depends on 
breaking the debt to the fingered pulse



Written in Stone


the barrier rose a frugal mist
in turns against the bloodline shore
its sequestered undertow

a churn toward memory 
fixed as granite’s flow ebbing 
a slow repose its yearning

listless memoirs unwritten
flap white banners across the sky
foreboding couriers on course

with collision its time carrier
broken open as a telling dial circles
twelve limits of its grim perimeter

rapping knuckles on the wind