Vernon Frazer

Poetry

spiritual finger dirt
brings emphatic declamation
as a long-nailed claw

emphatic summaries
empathic memories amnesia-bound

absinthe elixir magic
allusive as a timber membrane

curtly uttered

the magic pawed at music
a mittened resonance muffled
the urge to exclamatory

diction, receding
along the sputtering path

railing at private indignities

elephantine returns
cobra fangs at full length
no hood encumbers

      the maw
                          of the consumer
      trailing
                      the smirk and mutter

preceding the clanging sound

                              that hurts
                                                     to linger
                              under the grime

of boundaries

that stretch to

the nerve

ending

Bio: Vernon Frazer hides in plain sight.