Aught, no. 7 (2001)
Vernon Frazer
Rapture of the Shallow
The restive vigils prevalent suits
where transitive. Dichotomies hedge
festered leather suggestion boxes
grown luminous from orange rhymes.
Witness its own, some tested forage
and misses.
Arresting self-reflexive prophecy
girdles bitterly anointed litigants
pointing tongues at gestured flesh.
Their lugubrious assets
dwindle hair-tossed windows.
Luxuriant apostrophes candor
radiant synaptic apertures,
transgress nominal transcendence.
Vagaries implicit in handkerchiefs
swollen to apnea
reels,
feeling explicit
handles
rub their vacant dawns with candor
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