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1920's Flicker

Paul Cameron Brown
John Dillinger and Baby-Faced Nelson
in a dream together
- one shooting holes thru
theories of his untimely death,
the other frying in an old-time
(e) Electric Chair
with balloons waving, bonbons...
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Available Languages: English

Ace Of Spades

Paul Cameron Brown
Parable as metaphor -
profile in hard glint of light,
buckskin garb
merging from shadow &
buckboards -
sandwiching of memory
being elbowed
thru a Deadwood City
saloon door.
...
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Available Languages: English

Adua

Paul Cameron Brown
Adua had never regarded his life as a pantomime. He wanted so much to please. As a dandelion, he thought of himself as little brother to the sun catching her yellow butter in his eyes.
...
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Available Languages: English

Adventurer

Paul Cameron Brown
How desert islands
in a cartoonist's imagination
invariably are flat,
palm-studded
peopled by a solitary, abject
yet humorous man.

In real time, no delight;
such islets...
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Available Languages: English

Adversaries

Paul Cameron Brown
He held his hands like plastic -
his vestments the finer
calling of his trade,
vocation as modern strummer
of Nature's laws
Engineer in brief -
wine glass in hand...
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Available Languages: English

A Face

Paul Cameron Brown
A face in the mist, with rain around,
clings to bare leaves frowning.
A face through the mist, convulsed,
plays stationary, perching from twigs.
A face, not knowing it, trust it is good.
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Available Languages: English

Ahoy

Paul Cameron Brown
Image throttled in the subconscious,
romantic throwback -
the mind on a voyage round land's end
to eclipse pyramidal fires
set as beacons along rock strewn shores -
her skeletal inhabitants on ice flows...
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Available Languages: English

Airbrush

Paul Cameron Brown
Iced coffee,
wedge of toast -
the sun poking thru
cranberry glass
delights exquisite Duchess of Berry,
her decanters & an hourglass.

Halo-hello in your fingertips
I said,...
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Available Languages: English

Alcatraz

Paul Cameron Brown
White ibis/blue crane,
the arch of wings
in full sail over leafy barques
a wise stork scanning water
like the Disney character,
conductor on his train
with eye-glasses
& stop watch.
...
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Available Languages: English

Ambergris City

Paul Cameron Brown
Felt no pain against the water,
the tea-cup sky was a turquoise colour in its wrath
illuminating ambergris city in spot checks below.

The sperm whale population was in decline....
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Available Languages: English

Amherst Island

Paul Cameron Brown
In winter, you were
a flash of light,
tundra against
Arctic floor

Warm breath
stirred yr
summer's breast
and I saw
windblown hair
the colour of kelp
transfix...
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Available Languages: English

Ancestral Memory

Paul Cameron Brown
Patrician to my plebian,
aristocratic leaning versus
unbridled backwoods feeling -
distinct Old World breeding
countering rudest colonial lean-to;
his carcass lay, roadworthy,...
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Available Languages: English

Ancient Of Days

Paul Cameron Brown
It's Epsom but could pass for Epping,
New Forest or Dumbarton Wood.

There's ivy of the thickest
English sort not commonly
found in America; sprigs
growing across open ground
mantling it....
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Available Languages: English

And Then Some

Paul Cameron Brown
The anger past
as a cat arches her back
a thickly rich robust anger
blackest coffee in a thick
earthen mug
this thug & mugger with sufficient
silk thread.

Yet the assassin is back...
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Available Languages: English

Animals And The Stars

Paul Cameron Brown
Crickets are a strange place,
cricks of dew hemmed
with hoar-frost
mushrooming by a door.

The glens are fashions of a loom
eerie pads
are nightly rooms.

The padlocks...
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Available Languages: English

Antarctica

Paul Cameron Brown
Perhaps it is needed to balance the planet: to provide
employment for penguins, or that ice in the form of
crystals calls forth tiny sleighs.

That the orange hibiscus be associated only with deepest tropics...
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Available Languages: English

Approaching Thirty (Lauds And Matins)

Paul Cameron Brown
Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus
holding the years
like tresses
in a wistful pose.

Tenebrous youth accosted
by callow Time
bleeds the heart
with spring aloes....
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Available Languages: English

Asgard

Paul Cameron Brown
In the ardour
of an Asgard fire
see adders from her
vinous fire per
adua ad astra.

Listen to the wind -
the ageless, intoning wind,
a sea-hag encrusted on
a mattress of waves.
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Available Languages: English

A Thief's Notebook

Paul Cameron Brown
Baggage. Banal brigands,
turn-coats, stiletto to dirk
appraise warm flesh
upraised over a pie-shaped sky,
bread crust moon.

On oyster rock,
with grinning, red hibiscus,
jute and henequin...
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Available Languages: English

At The Red Throat

Paul Cameron Brown
In youth, Death was
a puny boy possessing but
wormy hands & fleshless fingers
as in Witch Hazel
or Scrooge's Future Ghost
- that insipid Evil One
Hansel so easily outwitted...
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Available Languages: English
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