Vernon Frazer - poems poems poems

Never Ordered

dewlap tactician

enormous roach pabulum

        fawns

the sentient frankfurter trailed back

baited its play

                       in discursive stillness     

      equally        the          bigamists          

      grown         past         stairwells

under impatience mends hacksaws 

                 brass hazard

                 broadcasting

                 sealant gone

                        to pencilled relapse

                     *

behind their enormous handouts

legged overestimates thickened

the painter before its constituent

                     workloads clear tenements

     slipping 

     the prefrontal grabbing

                as gourmet maturity scented

                savory travels 

                                       delivering 

                                                      

       fireball                                      (where available)

       incident            nuggets

       clangers           of luster  

        

                     threaten

             elision before long

                          bedtime perplexity

                          moves the sceptic gaggles

                          enjoy

                                    where category drifting 

                                    placates a critical swim

                     *

cement mix a raw dinner 

relayed

             under

                        hostage 

     lozenges shored 

     gourmet brimstone

             treks the monograph

             benchmarks 

                                 rummaging lapses

                        across the reclusive stanchions      

                                       the misconception booklets

                                                droop

                                                           unstocked

Barbershop Trio

acclimated pollution cans 

a cappella follow-up to childhood 

     primordial budgeting

     the thriller polls think

the barber vectors easy paramedic 

shattering wet pecans 

decimated flagstaff maroons  

panegyric hopscotch a neon retina 

                        *

the carapace thinkers 

     capture cupid moonlight 

          when velvet romp ruse 

                       weasels reciprocity 

     oiling procurer enlargements

     to condom numerals

                                      baffling reflexes 

enlargements detonate reflexes 

the testicular dreamer’s vacant artifact

          across from

                              drill cleavages 

steed porters lost a maiden verbatim

                       *

charm unsettled oxcarts

offering radar peepholes 

easier caramel pollutants 

     stamping out the rickshaw

husband transmission live

as masterstroke romantic ruse 

the sensual pronouncements 

          slowly breathe 

                   opalescent tiffs 

Resolution Missing Tonic

wearing fifths

torn and bothersome 

     musical man’s                 

     ringmaster crisped exact

          plunk varnishing

          the histrionic carousing

          optical drainage

                      calibrated moaning

where paratactic thanks lost 

to weeping ginger the spider

entrenches browsers in wall-

flower discrimination against 

                      the skyscraper born 

                      on glamour lava wasted

          the chilling sonatas

          a rooftop banjo threaded

               looters down 

               crop rows fizzle

                        the quest drummers 

                        numb among reluctant mergers

                  dish marathon

                  secretions breathe clamor

                  lumberyards botched

                          barriers kissed

                          words mate their simile 

Collection Agency

ramblers clamor deadbeats

lecturing seminal spittle thrashing

appealing to strikers 

                                 of cul-de-sacs

      under chaperone

stationmasters find elevator relief

                when forewarned

 watching               the growths repel

   mends                to yellow urgency

distinction              the fibers embed

numbering from the laughing menages

                       *

brink of bug ordination

linking available threaders

approved a lavish locus

            the enactment

            all portent reclusive

                        monolithic pitfalls uttered

                                 a slow inch

                                 ambuscade 

                    where any shored scapula 

                    posing over 

                                       memento pillows

                                       gout menages &

                                       oligarchy patches

                     

         shredded to stag

                        wishing guess recognition

                       *

 the memorials to 

 colony legislators overestimate 

 a lingering 

                   portfolio 

              archly declaimed

              shank schemata

              douses structure

  vigilance from the brink unclimbed

       whetted portfolio lightning

       on graphic embankments

                 gone brimming 

                                           on repayment

Either Ored

their scavenging papers 

forebode transparent hacksaws 

to doorsteps artfully linear

 

     haze fiber

inking a rectangular shag

protruding gabble diction

     against

                 shake spooning

      colorcast intentions

      baste granite in catalogues

available            gondola bribe

     in                  downturn treks

luggage             soon embraced 

        modern imponderables

                      *

the packeting paired

armor threaders and pearls

refining the writhing

                  

      letterheads

     where the shake climber

     embraced the clear predicates

          before

          the line’s urgent override

          inhabits the past 

                     ambulance forward

    numbering blown before shipping invective

                      *

its mobilities encumbered 

     from guerrilla revolts

    to a lacking potential

         renewed bluffing 

             distilled banshees 

             and penguin fibers        

                 collapsed a fat canticle

                 while aching the stage

                      binary 

      

                               at the boundary grill

Robert Frede Kenter - four pieces

***

Writing thru reading 

1.

Of habit and trespass: archives

libraries of professors, scolded

(Her): in the spaces of liminality

(His): courtly reclusive spinster

in white by virtue of – people.   Like

intimate households, three meals a

day. To keep clean. Celibate – tracks 

release the task of running 

larger homes ---

2. 

the memory 

of Christopher street hot

Village pier.

3. 

what of my cools fingers

at curtains. Another solemn

intervention – tooth brush crown

evades stress – villages attend

resident prompt, the   pause meet  

morning  -- waterlilies 

4. 

backward sky -- fraudulent 

believe inductive haze of 

Child wine as brave

pompous bosoms

5.

Side of a house – to talcum life

tubs of water. books 

and abundant paper.  avalanche

down side street, up stairs.  sleds

down hills, steam. Language promises 

anguish scolds. 

***

Desk Conjunction Rote 

Little children coats falling wind blowing door open

Sit black spider widow window shall be strapped.

Front room teacher radiator steam too hot

Cannot breathe throes of constant suffocation.

Boy shall never learn satisfaction   ever

Retinal nerve clearly animosity is a compound word.

Spider web sticky stuck    it is it is it is

A stick stuck it is it is it is a spider web  

***

Odysseus Equine Road 

I can’t deal with the dealers of death. They asked me, who frightened you. 

They prepared rabbit stew. Dynamite me out of a trench, my body covered in 

liquid honey for ants to prance. To prattle. O she is so marvelous. There is none 

like her. Encourage short-stops along the road to a stage show. The Sage Empress is 

never far away from the Jack-o-Lantern of theorizing. Pour cold buckets of water over 

me. Like Niagara Falls, its all been a sorry spectacle. How many times do we need to 

watch it? On the promontory, shadows fall. Cascading. Twilight. 

***

Plum. Age

Anonymous shape-shifter she carried concealing farther

Messages, a metronome, mechanical as reasonable

I said, I’ll lend you fifteen if you give me twenty

One at a time, for every day, a carry-on bag for the bay

A satchel of plucked chickens, a sponge, a basket of plums

To follow someone down the follow spot

I follow you who follows

Each bone has its wish, I who collect shells for the long and tall game

Sail across the ocean to you, sail across the ocean to me

Riding the plume the waves cascade

We are hidden inside the mist of one another’s pockets 

Coats opening vows accelerating 

Like I into you, you into eye, painted nails black as thread

Through needle’s need less heed herding Eyes, aye,

The haystacks on trucks over mountain passes patches of fog

Dissemblers embers of fire

Suffocating matched abjure

The jury bespoke evidence of structures

Strychnine tinctures embedded in straw wagons

We’ve run a fowl of sleep, we’ve run afoul of sheep

Jumping over fences in a father breath

That held you closer driving even faster

 When is it all about the when we take the time when 

 We take the oars  Gas-Food- Lodging 

Out into the water, the lake of murmurs

Rumours of food as love, filled up on 

Food and sacrifice, the sacred scars

(Rowing) kissing here, pleasure unravelling

When one turns around one way the unrivaled road

turning into another, and another, and 

another

A maze of ducks, a line of music

The harp lyre on String Road

Liars in rowboats dropping flesh bone tattoos on arms exposed

To the lips of the aching watery clerestory mythology

Because Daddy drove a self-driving truck

Coast to coast

And I left from there

Fog embankments on each side

Quilting stories in a needle’s eye

A needless headless hedonist

I am the One He Who Rises

Imprint on a bed hand prints on flesh

Of ownership, scrubbing off radiant fire

Pouring alcohol down into the stand-alone 

Shower-drain

At the Motel 6 in Swansea Bay

What happened here is transported far

And away has no precedent 

To a prescient de-clutter 

Nothing but transformative sound  (if)