hutt 1.2
  hutt - angori, pakistan
 
 
Vernon Frazer has written eight books of poetry and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in Big Bridge, First Intensity, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Miami SunPost, Muse Apprentice Guild, Sidereality, Xstream and many other literary magazines. His web site is http://vernonfrazer.co. He is married and lives most of the year in South Florida.

 

 
   
vernon frazer - standoff at low noon

threadbare gossamer candle holster
bereaving parallel dead men sockets
alabaster oddities where handles gloss
the raving urbanity treading city streets
crossing breeds disdain a dread of puberty
ashen rites trolleyed down to hollow peers
near the waterfront uncovered no standard
bearing the fruit of nomenclature
nor the thrust of its long obligato
toward arboreal stratagems luster on the transit
monopoly transgendered the rabid nucleus
of the oligarch's persuasive anatomy
killing song with little noise or bruising
ruptured concepts teeming with legends
applied toward the purchase of any brick softener
no strings attache in case the adagio shudders
its feeling mentor bent over a latent eel
no squidlike protrusions to the commentary
engendered reflux in the face of distaste
incipient reaction grid action grilling dispatchers
to the omnibus plurum forefront decay
demolished the pantry of its isolation
fugal sentry that he was free on appeal
to higher conundrums than can decree their ruin
a central assembly dispersed under
a polished grin and spittle to the forefront
the clamor dries its dirty laundry
airing the masters of balancing jackals
that hide authorship of intestate frigates
of irony foretold or emboldened
through repetition of sustained admission
to ripple subterranean glissandi
their stalagmites braving a fossil universe
in creed gibbering aortal fantasies
frolic the tabloid gospel on display
in tenant fenders the patch-quilt dynamo
hunger referees of cross-stitch enamel
prosper from glamorous cellulite panels
imposing their propagation alert
flaunting actuarial abnegation specialities
at maximum furniture outlets
disingenuous staple massacres
upheld sonic fertilizer umbrage
in rank muscatel parlors
chronically bitten through carved jars
cameo outlets disappearing on camel
or an otherwise stretch of water
asserting states of surly gentility
regardless of whether it blinked