Monday, January 6, 2025

C22 (Vernon Frazer)

 Curtains Calling #1

 
Curtains Calling #2

Down the Drain #1


Down the Drain #2

Purging the Sound of a Syntactical Urge #1


Purging the Sound of a Syntactical Urge #2

Purging the Sound of a Syntactical Urge #3

Reeling in the Reeling #1


Reeling in the Reeling #2




Making the Scene
 
 
                   1.
 
 
caravan headquarters creak
a tethered tremolo near the darkening
briar trampling
                        vibration shops
 
     epithet fright
     removed sonic perforation                     
 
          patrimony eyelash 
          opening the memoriam
 
                                      ladder removed
 
                   2.
 
 
firebrand delicatessen
ripped hot greens like
commission rudiment
 
              putting bubbled ebony
 
        a pancreas souffle
 
reverb tipples
 
          vestries in clearance
          where capability views kneel
          to embrace perforation
 
 
                   3.
 
 
nightclub quibbles
cornered galloping pitchers
     listening
          renewed
                 odor duets
 
disconsolate scruple founders 
removed the withdrawal jubilees
darkening factotum trimming
 
     with broken plagiarism
     trampling torn tremolos 
 
              braking riffs
              mimetic to percussive rudiments
 
 
Spicing a Hunger
 
 
subgum filters travail
off wick as a sea disturbance
hammers the platter
 
          felt anomic flattery
          dished their entropic circle
 
     a low tide under hand
     with ten brocaded adjectives
 
             balanced
             their mounting fervor act
 
 
                 (     )
 
on the climb
the trail wilted a currant path
 
          events to follow
 
     tantric bloodletting 
     marketing dead legends 
     chili paste jumpsuits
 
taste their way across the plate
 
 
Last Seen
 
the postgraduate slither
barbiturate pronouncements
                        a notion
                                      unsealed
 
           flies 
                   pang free
                   sensual verbatim
 
the human deathbed in want goggles
 
                            *
 
           abdominal laser mesh
           assigned a synthesizer welt
           from anterior vectors 
 
shattering vats 
                        among 
                                     easy vertebrates
 
          no seeking 
                           paintbox
                           flail ideology 
                           postal cumulus
 
               suburban poltergeist 
                     rendered 
          the supermarket wrapping
 
                                   testicular loneliness tatters
 
                               *
reaper calling
random load aids woodcutter
        reflexes skip arrears
 
 
               unsealed parodists intervene
 
                         a mayday reprimand limping to revelation
 
 
—Vernon Frazer

C22 (Vernon Frazer)

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