"Impersonating the Jumpsuit Elvis," "Playing Connected," and "Language Calling"
Impersonating the Jumpsuit Elvis
this rondo rocker
sent hollow vows
one subversive and grim
its motoring patois
flames noumenal irritation
cactus photocopies
postponing the grit predicate
nothing
the memorandum will roll
sonically rude
unless
the uplift
from testicle irritation
encouraged studio heads
a noumena caliper
choke-forking sideburns
confusion past
the voice-over zoom
dynasty milepost:
a bobblehead
Playing Connected
iodine sherbet
catheters turn snake
in the floor
slither
ambiguous
leather
for toxic willow pageants
cascade merchants align
cranking out
their crude ultimatum
packets to launch
the proverbial as a je ne sais quo
no empty threat
though drained
before hands clank
their scrotal buzzer
tanking a conniption fit
medium large or pick an X
a carefree wallow
muffles their insurgent pipeline banter
Language Calling
regal mobilities
surround their implosions
embed plagiarism
to quell the infused admixture
however long
the grappling
explication embodies
interjection marches
a foil reporter relayed
slipping readerships
ritual ventriloquist surrender
clicking
the drama tippler
profiting mends filtered vertigo
the frailty
a clear lacuna
intones
ergonomic recourse
speeds dulcimer playboys
past the stagnant epaulet
to bother strewn bandanas
milking salvation
pleasured for the holiday makers
*
future lapses lit
critical memorials
where seat vests
attuned
circumflex
lifeguards
all bandanas sparking
the quibble baste
honed in fungal cleric dials
bonnet catacombs faulted
sequential stairwell amenities
protruding
ventricle tenants
themselves shadowed chants
however pictorial
the prepositional volcanos
lecturing human hormone
rambles
to a pitfall
declension
Vernon Frazer’s latest poetry collection is Voyage in Port. He recommends the Poetry Project at St. Mark's.