GAS Featured Poet: Vernon Frazer

Vernon Frazer has written more than thirty books of poetry, three novels and a short story collection. His poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, First Intensity, GAS, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Miami SunPost, Muse Apprentice Guild, Sidereality, Xstream and many other literary magazines. He introduced IMPROVISATIONS at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in Manhattan.  

 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.

Fixing a Borrowed Habit

simulacrum addict

fixing with a borrowed paradigm

     amphitheater closing

     the latest string of artifacts 

                     hung

         

          a plaster closing

      attuned to past 

fortune no future

     in opposing 

     the brief that ripped the current

          from the pit          

                             of wet nostalgia 

repellent vector a slide

where fossils of the evening

gather postures

                          for similar dismay

    in veritas             a show of

      chaos                exposers

              dissembled 

                    for a lather gathering 

                    

                                foreclosed

              to join the programmed rhetoric

                                                  in its recovery

Insurrection Attacks

murder dart rebellion 

dungeon the reflective grandad 

     and 

           watchdog muzzle works 

letterhead calligraphy without rejoinder 

     the verity dollars arising 

     would slash vegetation substructures 

          each stroke sliding cold black

          contrapuntal reprint offenses

          strict emptiness attained skill 

          phrasing horseshoes playing 

         

                                sewer fossil leveraging

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excursion culprit 

exalted enough bongo praxis

     from lotus tone 

     the intrinsic vegetations speak               lilacs 

gracefully             muster

                                                                 down-and-out

    muzzle dating stationer

                           fondles needle wrecker

                           chortle booms concerto

                          

               demonstrative morass

               attained lithe capability tactic 

               where appearing graffiti 

            upended novelty 

   spoken as the baton rises