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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: 1920's Flicker John Dillinger and Baby-Faced Nelson 22182
2: A Face A face in the mist, with rain around, 5265
3: A Thief's Notebook Baggage. Banal brigands, 9164
4: Ace Of Spades Parable as metaphor - 21197
5: Adua Adua had never regarded his life as a pantomime. 10144
6: Adventurer How desert islands 24178
7: Adversaries He held his hands like plastic - 19175
8: Ahoy Image throttled in the subconscious, 24164
9: Airbrush Iced coffee, 28160
10: Alcatraz White ibis/blue crane, 18153
11: Ambergris City Felt no pain against the water, 15160
12: Amherst Island In winter, you were 33158
13: Ancestral Memory Patrician to my plebian, 22134
14: Ancient Of Days It's Epsom but could pass for Epping, 23174
15: And Then Some The anger past 25175
16: Animals And The Stars Crickets are a strange place, 16155
17: Antarctica Perhaps it is needed to balance the planet: to provide 35153
18: Approaching Thirty (Lauds And Matins) Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus 22178
19: Asgard In the ardour 12143
20: At The Red Throat In youth, Death was 46151
21: Automobile Soft Legs Now, it came to pass that a seasoned young diner 13162
22: Barbary White How death will steal, from life, to claim us all, 4156
23: Bargaining Unit The man about to become a sparrow 23112
24: Bedroom Glass Counted three white pigeons 10201
25: Bee An Apple The taste of an apple, 8177
26: Begin And Beguile If brains be gables & minds, say, the shutters 24162
27: Belize Giving myself permission to write - 99152
28: Between Two Stones They poured hot water into people's cups 7157
29: Blackamoor Breaking up - 51149
30: Bloodcount My mind had almost died. 21151
31: Bloodstream Camping out, a miraculous thing happened. 15180
32: Blue*Eyed Grasses Rocky shale, pale voile, 20156
33: Boca Nature abhors a vacuum", theorists of both philosophy and politics assure us. 180171
34: Braggadocio Chess playing Death 62137
35: Bravura Memory as embankment, 15148
36: Brébeuf Brébeuf is looking at the land that bears his namesake. 5163
37: Brushstroke On rue Vincingetorix, 14184
38: Buzz Phrase Down on your luck 19151
39: Canadian Book Review Annual 1985 Le voyage exotique devient parfois fantistique. 4134
40: Candlelight In Black The ghosts are marmalade 23143
41: Canvassing And I thought of things, 12158
42: Cape Of Good Hope Poltergeist activity 14194
43: Carnival And Lent Jungle, the cave 46139
44: Casha A child-like fawn 16160
45: Casting Rocks Merely on edge, 20177
46: Chain Letter I'm sitting in a "sixties bar." No put-on. 27292
47: Chance Upon As she's lying there in sherbet panties 18176
48: Chemin De Fer Had I been 36177
49: Chinatown I And a little farther 10172
50: Chinatown-I As they are crawling up to you 10158
51: Chopsticks Only marginal chances 11140
52: Chrysalis Fury of chrysalis, or crepuscular caterpillar's roosting nest, 19164
53: Cienfuegos The white pin wheel of heat turns up the grasses' edge. 16129
54: City The Insects Invade The old man sleeps with his weeping. 4151
55: Clandestine Operation The most appropriate comment, 13147
56: Claws Unfolding gazes 8197
57: Clippership Pausing to see 14163
58: Cold Passion The land is barren 27154
59: Colette The waitress mainlines 19151
60: Collusion A surtax on the ecosystem; 10157
61: Comments Unrestrained, imaginative writing. 20130
62: Comments Unrestrained, imaginative writing. 6157
63: Corner Store Fifties Reveille I met Bear at the 5 n' dime 16163
64: Countess The pig's head omelette - 18140
65: Countess II Imagining the smoke burnt 22169
66: Crying Scene If you're going to drop the gauntlet 12150
67: Cuando-Cubango Moths, if they dream dusk, 33147
68: Cubits A woman is a trough 16195
69: Cud There were a series 52193
70: Currency One of the cows was Belladonna, 10187
71: Darkening Green My mind, rarely with me alone, 7195
72: Dash Into Realism: Escape Pad From The Sixties For one, street argot became tougher. 15144
73: Debriefing I won't envy the heat this August. 48142
74: Desire Sleep is a striking woman 21172
75: Desire Sleep is a striking woman 22135
76: Devastation Little red berries are 13146
77: Dinner At Eight At times, I thought of swizzling white rum 55150
78: Distemper Looking into the glassy crucifix of water. 13165
79: Dress Rehearsal The universe is expanding 102145
80: Dry Guillotine In my childhood, "Verdun," meant madness. 44143
81: East Of Oswego Ticonderoga to Lake George, 23207
82: Electra Fantasy, Capri. The edge of a pillow. 13205
83: Embers As you enter into dream - 8222
84: Emptiness The threadbare uniforms 9166
85: Empty Warriors The jungle where the meow goes in, is 9138
86: Ending Up reads like 17152
87: Entry Point Ants colonized it 24218
88: Equinox The four Equinox sisters, 44157
89: Errands Somewhere in the distance a dog kept at his baying. 17170
90: Every Man's Hand raised against them 69159
91: Eyes Inside There's cadence 6305
92: Eyeshine I remember the world like a picture. 29155
93: Fabulist Riel veritably in a cockpit - 29196
94: Fence Line That Captain Kidd scribbling of rock in the fields 25169
95: Fire Bush If flies be dragons 15169
96: Fishing Nets The polar stars drip in blood . . . 9171
97: Flashpoint The moon has a larder 33131
98: Flood White ermine/white semen, 19175
99: For Tom Thomson I have thrust my fists 44166
100: Forest Spittle The preciseness of that little moment, 6197
101: Fortress Snow The embankment lies as heavy 23138
102: Gangland A sailor, "tatoo you," 40185
103: Ghost Tales With leaves twitching 20143
104: Gladiators No broken visor, emptied glove 7222
105: Godiva Lingerie, 20195
106: Gossamer Threads I feel like cutting my finger, 12148
107: Gourds A cemetery overgrown 6189
108: Green Angellights Green angel lights 16155
109: Green Eye Shields I have stars drying in my eyes. 12133
110: Guadalquivir In a pleasureless world, pure pleasure exists. 19155
111: Hamomlette A VICTIM OF INDIGESTION OR PATRICIDE? 10158
112: Hannibal When Hannibal mowed down Romans 17120
113: Hardcases I dreamed my toenails 75139
114: Haunted Child In the dark of wedlock 8177
115: Headdress Stravinsky's Firebird, 24156
116: Helluland We built bottlecaps off 30147
117: Hewanorra The moon, at most a shudder or two away. 18129
118: Hidden Agenda Mariachis, almost a Spanish temperament within those stars, 26198
119: High Frequency Draw (High Alert) Les bougies sur les tombeaux 4166
120: High Roller Terrorism - 121142
121: Highgate Angel Inn, 37174
122: Homuncular Forms Cape aux Morts. 24143
123: Humboldt's Current Cresta roja wine 16170
124: Il Giardino Cloves on the table. 18132
125: Illuminaire Elfin & gold bug, 19277
126: Imagistic There in the cosmos - 15158
127: In My Books The way I figure it, a number of people are 15139
128: In The Cenote Under a candlelit operetta 24214
129: Inside Seam Having wilderness cracks 45120
130: Investiture Our nights have cruel eyes 20144
131: Isles And Rivulets On your brow, the steppes of Asia 23127
132: Jabiru Clarence, the pipe stem would grow hot with rage 9159
133: Jagged Wire A rail fence is more than that on a country dawn 14176
134: Juniper Trees Sitting as Buddha on a chocolate juniper 27145
135: Kindling As a matter of fact, 11161
136: King And John Streets (For Isabella Vacancy Crawford) When the shadows are hungry 31169
137: Kipper, Tea And Oranges Our lives evaporating as we talk, 14205
138: Kith And Kin Once there was a giant 42164
139: Knight-Errant A well-thumbed book 56154
140: Kublai Khan The Japanese are coming! Now there's a fresh twist 78124
141: La Douce Mer Too greedy hormonal levels, 13155
142: Landing Schemes Omens are the cloth of dreams 10139
143: Lavender A mind is a ray of light running to the sea; 51152
144: Leaf Doctor You said happiness was a bird 8182
145: Leaves Of The Cecropia Tree And what of privileged things 24179
146: Lithuanian Dolls /Consulate Front These eyes of dolls seem leaden stones 30154
147: Living Room If anatomy were a contact sport, 16134
148: Lolita Gardens A man weeps at your ankles, 24168
149: Lost Patrol Blue walls were grottoes, 27154
150: Made In Space Mood food. In deep, deep water 15177
151: Magpie Tongues Trillium breath, an ounce 21139
152: Mail Drop A boat sits on the very shallows 27173
153: Malingering Malingering, 10195
154: Man In the old air 14152
155: Mangroves How do you survive 24157
156: Mangroves How do you survive 35177
157: Marzipan A thick hole in the dark 35152
158: Men Of Shade All the candles are passing out, one by one. 6164
159: Metaphor There is a star near 37145
160: Midpoint The thin, feathery blue 8148
161: Mirage The intense focus of light 17172
162: Moccasin Backwoods cabin, opera house 19159
163: Moon Dark World The trees 7188
164: Moonrock She wears a cat encrusted T-shirt 36155
165: Naiad Trance The leaves on their trumpet flames 41191
166: Night Fishing At Antibes A beach back of bric à brac, 35334
167: Night Sky I can call a lake a kettle 19154
168: Night Winds They made us sit alphabetically in rows. 10127
169: Northwoods Poem Watermelon, 19135
170: Not So Much I evaded capture today 46149
171: Ocean Sea Cueta and Tetuan are outposts within the Arab psyche, 52169
172: Offerings (A Movement In Four Parts) The night is folly without the moon, 78252
173: Old Brompton Road Death is but a sleep 28148
174: Onomatopoeia One thing about this type of education, 12186
175: Oracabessa An iron wrought gate of turpentine force conveys little pigment, 22158
176: Orange Lichens Orange lichens, in sun-like clusters, 21163
177: Orifice To perforate in adumbration, 5167
178: Palais Royale The night cold as nuggets, dark as acorn, 14143
179: Paleface Old Sawbones, pale as a sheet, 19154
180: Passageways Greet the days 72173
181: Passing I should be busy with words 6177
182: Pastiche These shell-queens, too, 48141
183: Peculiar Morning As if every living thing lived, breathed 6155
184: Pelée The night before ... 29188
185: Pelée: May 8, 1902 With the smile of morning 37136
186: Pencil Sketches Staying home, 13155
187: Penny Wise, Pound Poor Fall was a tubercular cousin 38166
188: Perhaps Perhaps the sky once was shadows, 6188
189: Picaroon Scouting the sun 67140
190: Picpus The day I went to LaFayette's grave, the 37199
191: Pillage It's chess of sorts but 35169
192: Piltdown Man Popping out of the dark 55147
193: Plaudits Loki, the Norwegian god of mischief, 2175
194: Plums & Vine Plums and vine (as the Atlantic is green) 10176
195: Poetry Canada Poesie wry humour. 4191
196: Poets Are Magic Beings She sits within the Magic Lantern 25160
197: Pogrom There is an unhurried resemblance to pain, here, 11170
198: Point Spread Off memory 69140
199: Ponchontas Years ago, when life was too violent for any to live very old, 6157
200: Pondicherry Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle piece 18146
201: Pondicherry Chess pieces resting upon the jade 25139
202: Preening The sky is red and comes 15168
203: Presence Of Mind Spring heralds the summer with lilacs perched from that door. 14172
204: Primavera A poem is perishable and, 19146
205: Prospectus In salt flats, 18156
206: Pyromania She had a fireplace - 11147
207: Rain Film On the night of the rains, 21154
208: Reading The Tides: Petroglyph Park A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun 35182
209: Red Fox (Red Horse Lake) A magnificent Red Devil 16163
210: Red Illusions Under Glass Life as green illusion - 15151
211: Refresher Course And he told them "the universe is a ripe apple in heavenly 10141
212: Regalia If the rich are different 15134
213: Regalia If the rich are different 15169
214: Resignation Petals that fall into a woodland pool 6216
215: Rip Rip, an inarticulate dog with a namesake derivative of more. 11195
216: Rites Of Intensification Did time on the Hegelian 13127
217: Rocking Horse Fate is a mahout astride a large elephant, impersonal 10140
218: Rogue And Privateer The Squirrel, a corsair, 11167
219: Rouge And Gray So much time has passed 27136
220: Rowing With Crayons I see children rowing with crayons 8163
221: Sabbat Picturesque Tituba, steeped in Obeah, 41157
222: San Cristobal A gypsy sits in a taverna 44159
223: Sanguine Imagine, being told cubism isn't painting. That 77129
224: Santo Domingo In the crypt with Columbus 24172
225: Seaeggs The reef was inviting, her languid coral nudging the breakers 18175
226: Seagulls I see many thoughts from a window. 6220
227: Seaward Whirl of patterned images, 17152
228: Sentry In Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream, eyes 8193
229: Sequin A youthful bandit 24155
230: Serenade A green flotilla, 36137
231: Serpentine More fragment of tree 13177
232: Shamrock Is there anything prettier than that - 30171
233: Shivaree These kettle bells. 48175
234: Sideway Look It's snowing and all I can think of 19147
235: Silver Coins Seen the whores in doorsteps, 12161
236: Six Owlets Six owlets sitting in a tree, 12247
237: Sixties Hangover We have all been here before. 22136
238: Skin Her emerald top 24166
239: Skootematta Sheldrake, a magician 18133
240: Slaughterhouse You're the aggressor 44128
241: Sleigh Bells In fury, come the Heavens, 8158
242: Slipper When I was very young 12166
243: Smears A snowy morning 5186
244: Smokestack A small fish, 8184
245: Southwark I noticed a bust of Shakespeare, an effigy in stone with 19141
246: Spanked Buying up egg rolls at 50¢ a kick, 15143
247: Stillness Invitingly, the sea shines her stars, 12158
248: Stone Guide She was fading - 12146
249: Street Scene No open barge 8170
250: Summer's Clock Two is a fonder number gracing the clock than one 4144
251: Sweet Water The leaves lie hidden as spades about their home. 16148
252: Swords And Roses Some lives have themes. 68162
253: Tales Of Brave Ulysses Artists (astrologers never lie) 24149
254: Tank-Top I was playing sonatas on your skin - 34164
255: Teeter-Totter He was Popeye the Sailor Man 14138
256: Terminal Living The image complete 115165
257: Testimony When snow falls, there lives 10165
258: The Assignation (Pons Asinorum) Many devils are in woods, in waters, in wilderness and in dark, 28185
259: The Bay Of Cortes The sea is a requisitioned article in my possession. 24147
260: The Bells The dangling of bells 17149
261: The Bloodfish A story about tears that became minnows and sobs large fishes in their place. 5177
262: The Breath Of Candles The breath of candles, 7125
263: The Bullfrog He sat with no more compunction 21160
264: The Burning The sun is a burning magnet on the water. 24189
265: The Cable Car The Haitian effect of stars 18160
266: The Camera Cage As a child, all common sense decreed 20162
267: The Clearing That Is The Trees I want to go walking in troubled marshes 51149
268: The Crowkeeper I see grindstones in the sky, 33168
269: The Draper's Cloth I imagine stars at the dragon's tail, 20187
270: The East Is Red We can survive a nuclear War. It's scarcely credible, 89152
271: The Elysian Fields The Elysian fields 23165
272: The Encounter Today surprised me 8150
273: The Garden And like a cobbler at a bench 30164
274: The Garden Patch Gourd was taken to task when she understood the limitations 10157
275: The Gathering Of Dead Wood The gathering of dead wood - driven, 18170
276: The Gingham Dream Utterance As I watch the clouds assemble, steam-ship fashion 28152
277: The Glowworm In slow sutures of pale white - 15176
278: The Hire Corn's high this year," chirped the old woman 25164
279: The Hydaspes And I, cooing in my saddle, with lost time. 18189
280: The Intruder The colouring of spacious flowers rove delicious to the eye. 16156
281: The Jolly Tupper Sun on the eiderdown 18337
282: The Keeper Of The Jewel The keeper of the jewel. 13178
283: The Monarch She wanted her beauty too soon and must now forfeit it for the moment. 5160
284: The Necklace Garden For my part, I spied red berries 33147
285: The Nightlamp Like a wail in the back of an inflammed throat 11172
286: The Pelly, The Powder And The Snake The cowboy's overriding presence in North America 9152
287: The Poetry Pond Everyone is a poet, or so the philosopher said. The world teems 37173
288: The Potato Eaters The potato eaters 15147
289: The Rake's Progress I borrow De Quincey's Confessions 22156
290: The River Cuts A Channel People with money but no fortune 7163
291: The Sandpit Bertrand had been surprised by the recoil of his father's rifle. 16172
292: The Spoken Word I touch your 13151
293: The Strongbox He was always the one to figure things, 24166
294: The Toronto Star The poetry is fine... rewarding reading... 4200
295: The Toronto Star, Saturday, November 30, 1985 Bare bones future 11161
296: The Treasure Ships Rich ornamental procession 36165
297: The Wager I can live an adventuresome life vicariously through my characters. 49185
298: The Waters Of The Bay Lie Beneath An abandoned house 31199
299: The Woodsman Barely annoying the woods, 20188
300: The World Of Dying Love The long finger of blackness is holding its head for us. 19131
301: The World Of Tezcatlipoca the fourth state of water in its plasmic state 23140
302: This Way To The Sixties: John Lennon's Death Five Years After It was a red letter day and all within a decade, the sixties. 43141
303: Tickings Of A Clock I began to see old lanterns, books 22161
304: Tide Charts To create dream - 64155
305: To Cross The Bay I wouldn't try a crossing in weather like this 21163
306: To Sit Arrayed To sit arrayed 19132
307: Toronto Quennelles. Lady of the Gold Horse with Diamond Eyes. 9156
308: Toronto In Toronto, trendy bars absolutely must have a theme 31151
309: Trespass I would imagine 6169
310: Triangular Trade I would watch him lifting 11200
311: Trinkets My mind a buzz saw, 12130
312: Trout Lake Hotel The walls don't lack sincerity, here, 21138
313: Turncoat Sitting in the spendthrift dark 32161
314: Tussaud's In the wax museum with Attila and Genghis and Tamerlane 57170
315: Twillingate We all end up badly and 21167
316: Twinkling Of An Eye On twin tails of a comet 14264
317: Undulate, My Tongue My tongue undulates, a wave to shore, 11159
318: Unpaginated Orchestrating violins thru whisky sky 63134
319: Up From The Floor They sit in silence. In camera, around the table. 8144
320: Upturn The Rock Upon the rocks where the baubles of broken blue glass wink 7171
321: Vertigo We're travelling down a carnival road, are met at intersections by 19175
322: Viewer Mail The sky was 19150
323: Village Idiot Dodder capitulates on his bum, 16174
324: Voyage The mystique of the sea, 10143
325: Vulcans Adder toothed flowers snake 27176
326: Wanderlust Who administers to my needs? 61156
327: Warhorse Taken as metaphor ... 33167
328: Water Fast (The Pearl Fishers) Shopping in their heads 54134
329: What Became Of The Sixties? The "Haight," in Ashbury lived up to its name. 18121
330: What Colour Is Love? Sixties idols were built to last. 22160
331: When I Was A Much Younger Man When I was a much younger man, 48117
332: When Labouring To Break Perhaps one is in prison - 21155
333: Where A dark, shadow grey moth 12191
334: Whisky Girl I like'em ragged round the rim, 9163
335: Whispers Suppose and this is just supposing, 16164
336: White China Plates I The moon hummed like a refrigerator, 46129
337: White China Plates II You could have driven 13153
338: Wild Card Clayton brothers at the corral, 10167
339: Wincing You can't go back, 22131
340: Windfall Photos along a soft-centred wall 38161
341: Within Reach There are two images, 30175
342: Woodsy Backwoods Poem I saw Bear 30129
343: Work In Progress Two Chinese fellows approached me in a London suburb. 100137
344: Yellow Hair With that lime green hairnet 13152




About:
English born, Paul Cameron Brown has lived in or around the Toronto area for most of his thirty years.
His poems have appeared in periodicals across Canada and into the United States.


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