"Shutdown Payday," "Darkening the Storm," and "Species After Dark"
Shutdown Payday
obligue
as the horizontal plane
the runway
it grounded
left the line
under
past control
traffic
in condition or
presently
for out
signature flyover
airs
the trajectory
where
the cockpit stare
d
o turns bull
w fighting a red gesture
n
emptied
matadors in the rushes
their take
the given
a stab of
vertical pain
Darkening the Storm
a prescient spat
filched deeper steel
splatter-fingered
no bags roaming
reverb curdled militia culpas
chiming mists
of dead
spewing rudiment fillings
no definition more swollen
( )
violin pinning
the grimaces panic
against nostalgic vagaries
the seepage invasion delusion
colors granaries chronically
darkened
with treble curls
smoke pillars wandering
cavernous shadows
torment rotored and squeezed
( )
no gape whip surging below
a launch brightens modest feats
frothing known
and devious predictions
mustard animus
mutilation deviation predicates
inking a portfolio
ergonomic
will placates guerrilla
replicates bluffing
from nude admixture sacs
( )
a shake vantage
rendered the gall of a slow assemblage
a stripper glasshouses it
the revolt red graphic
and blown sewers
turns jacklight
forewarned driven umber
inhabits the doctrine
Species After Dark
libido badgers
dissemble their bleary hypotenuse
bangles
in conversational storage
their tell-tale fury
tears a taint unknown
tambourine luxury
beats a calamine drill
when elsewheres vacate
columnar shading
behind the outpost
hanging timber loose
behind
the wary cadges
squid warranties
enabled
limberjacks to jump
tentacles dangling obliquely
foreplay
over
a cougar thicket
burning in the bush
Vernon Frazer’s latest poetry collection is Voyage in Port. He recommends the Poetry Project at St. Mark's.