Vernon Frazer

Domino Effect in the Diaspora

the smother automobile

riffs like some crossfire statistician 

before shoehorn investment

sonic vodka swerves in milk

factions burst photocopies

perfectly designated nostalgia

the cedar rewrite removed

without Eyes in Havana fonts 

panacea tips fell vacant

the ontological parvenu posing

for grope symposiums

as the retrofitted reprise fighter

shattered the disquiet 

of the wavering imagination 

the skin tips whining 

a pepper limerick shattered eyeballs

the wavering endearment 

stapled the torn papa gloat

like a bored cornea lick

more hamlets torn from their grip

Papered Over

patent flecks express a house margin

suspicion experiments sullen finality

the crossfire of asymmetry coming down 

sharp as paper emanating rhyme stabs 

shuffled the sea carrot muffled tuning

primal bitterness their swelling echo

where piccolo glare continued to shape

collateral refuge visitors carnage forum

neither the text rejection experience

nor member damage remants left over

pillage flumes remodeled broadcast 

worry rations conjoin but less radiant

atmosphere the coincident price jump

encroaching a burglar’s bankruptcy

for laundering clutch butter targeted

their corduroy a vile vanity survived

writer packaged as a museum cellar

brain primed to lifelong tinker plunger

new feelings excuse mailbox privies

when the flaming wiped tight billows

jettison rudeness from freshly-baked

severity vendors vent an oblong rage

Calico Despair Cloister

the sax-drenched canine

of electoral colonies extend forensic vibratos 

          the hank of retribution'

      the rug benighted 

the darling or overcast participles 

flamboyant 

leisures

as the viscous keyholes of kitsch 

pursue

    the rum of batch registries

*

naked shepherd’s lordly floorboard 

charting phony grass as fleshpot edition 

     recumbent 

     toward insolent shortfalls 

embodies condiment 

     for disposal aspirant 

trampling ampersands

    as the 

divergence          brewery

 oversight expositions

cineplex mummies

*

crinolines committed 

to eggplants of interchange 

forthwith 

    per forthright bigot 

frosted chevrons planted catastrophes

daunted painting 

no wherefores attached 

its plateful veranda 

frosted fittings 

feathered with hoary           nautical tricksters waging

      catastrophes 

tragic pushover 

lassitude benighted lemmings 

in the dark 

        or overcast 

partings unknown to a viscous keystone

*

dander’s mortuaried grassland 

tabloids 

    editorial toward

            insolent shorties

meteorite aspiration for bettor neuters 

fecund as the diversity tribe expresses 

the sallow bikini

a delicatessen 

                of grandson culture

Vernon Frazer has published more than thirty books of poetry, including Mantic Pandemic, Memo from Alamut, Avenue Noir and IMPROVISATIONS. His fiction includes three novels and a short story collection. His jazz poetry appeared on three recordings, then extended into multimedia presentations.