VERNON FRAZER

Bodied Tone

endemic: the comic

Myoclonic cuticle

chutes the catwalk

jerks the lute,

its meaning

the chronic ballad

renders

dance:

sub-atomic membranes

Sound, its tendered inflections

engendered anemic counts,

a bloodline leading gene clefs

                              Register

epics dissonance

as its

            Cluster

Vernon Frazer has published eight books of poetry and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, First Intensity, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Miami SunPost, Muse Apprentice Guild, Sidereality, Xstream and many other literary magazines. His web site is vernonfrazer.com. His most recent works are the longpoems Avenue Noir and IMPROVISATIONS, the now-completed work which he introduced in his 2001 reading at the Poetry Project. Frazer is married and lives in South Florida.

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