Thursday, December 11, 2025

GAS Featured Poet: Vernon Frazer

 

Vernon Frazer's thirty-plus books of poetry include Mantic Pandemic, Memo from Alamut, IMPROVISATIONS,  Nemo under the League and SIGHTING. He is a member of the C22 Experimental Writing Collective. His fiction includes three novels and a short story collection. His jazz poetry appeared on three recordings, then extended into multimedia presentations viewable on YouTube. Frazer lives in Central Connecticut. He is widowed.



Payback in Training



fury starter 
vibrato slim crawl cadet 
    derision outpost

trouble pastiche
sharpened calico rudeness
emerging

              easily acquired

     monetary reality
     a discursive grogginess
     forking green

looming exchanges
before the argument
shaded 
            a gray run

one bored pose unfolding 

     the stress footage
     sweat of gratuitous exchanges
     breaking rhetoric vesicles

           provoked would be
           sizzle to invoke disposal
           where brackets hide

                    truthful excess learning
                           its mat commando skill






On Cue



coming from the corner
carom bulge collision spray
a rolling spread toward 
shoes and motor shores
clenched like an island rotary
cuffed against the cushion 
bounced balls into pocket
pool back turned to get 
its quiet corner action
rafting back a new score
numbered oddly to even
foreign fats and slims 
back to brag and green
against all angles boast
as competition collects
numbered table covers
sliced to carry where home
returns to its own pocket






Impact Statement Missing



animus hurled a hammer
at a vagary charge in action 
clipping a contact deflector

in trademark disposal
vacant once rummaging 
friction cathodes vacate

pineal findings extend
with plumage stashed dark
courage past the attention

the coastal menace forgot 
crises the witnesses displaced
near the lizard photoplay

diners howl dull oratorios
while the glittering dinner
honors a turnpike caddy





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