GAS Featured Poet: Vernon Frazer

Vernon Frazer has written more than thirty books of poetry, including Anchor What (Unlikely Books),IMPROVISATIONS and Avenue Noir, three novels and a short story collection. His poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous print and electronic publications. His latest poetry collection is Gravity Darkening.

Working in multi-media, Frazer has performed his poetry with

the late saxophonist Thomas Chapin, the Vernon Frazer

Poetry Band and as a solo poet-bassist. His jazz poetry

recordings and multimedia work are available on Youtube.

Frazer resides in central Connecticut. He is widowed.

Poster published by Unlikely Books

Vernon states:  "As a jazz and William Burroughs aficionado, my recent poetry fuses improvisation with cut-ups. At times, I orchestrate the text to create a multiple voice on the page. When in doubt about how to read my page, read it in every possible way." 

Takeout Delivered

her room mother

condemned iteration muttering

                           whenever

     quivering lips

     parlayed discomfort again 

                           when cannibalization pickled 

                           the backyard respiration con

                           the six-speculum sport room

              

   communion pawned the windows

         for                             vegan

    woodpile                   peregrination             

  shake-ups                   caravanserai    

                    coachmen

                            in the sky

             disposable resourcefulness

             trading away with confusion

                          a stale wisp

                          foiled metal’s furnaces

she hugged the convert

to finer vermouths and scarves

          yet 

                burning divisions 

                                            over

                              drainpipe confidences

                     

             curtails admixture jangles

                             from the wrist

                             the telltale dripping

                             of standing lost

                                       shattered a sideswipe      

In Search Of

enzyme underling reaches

happiness annihilation mediators

              outspread

                              shavings cluster

                   its own tautology

                             cannot release 

                                      lurid rhetoric 

                                            where braking 

                             *

swollen adobe surprised 

trill palms past the cigar song

prolonging the darkening                 topic

                   once creaking mildly

         when transforming

         their autumn gate dance

         from the heavy went

                    to shadow

                                     beginnings

                        sealed in the materializing 

                             *

between craven reasoning 

the urban thrombosis choir 

waxed where their shifters

               furnished the tableau

               reverberating introduction

the thunderstruck slanted

      against sure parka longitude

              despite stagecoach instructions

                    emanating grifters

                    bouncing for a dead envelope

                                                 monetarily bulging

 Gone Psychic

subgum illusion tracer

no courier tilled the basin mix

nor 

     a stilled hypotenuse

     riding the retro crux in style

          the rains crane

          wet-necked cribagge sticks

     reek aplomb

     regaining its nether post

     new vision declared

          a sublminal envy curtain

               curtailed

                             happenstance remission

                   hinting at raincoat

                   exposure and rosary factory outlets

                   lovebeads canned

                                                 ova buttoned

          loose origin persuasion

          pineal from a vacant forehead

                           erasing    

                           past futures for one

                                              present