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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, 5270
3: A Thief's Notebook Baggage. Banal brigands, 9166
4: Ace Of Spades Parable as metaphor - 21200
5: Adua Adua had never regarded his life as a pantomime. 10147
6: Adventurer How desert islands 24181
7: Adversaries He held his hands like plastic - 19177
8: Ahoy Image throttled in the subconscious, 24166
9: Airbrush Iced coffee, 28160
10: Alcatraz White ibis/blue crane, 18155
11: Ambergris City Felt no pain against the water, 15160
12: Amherst Island In winter, you were 33161
13: Ancestral Memory Patrician to my plebian, 22137
14: Ancient Of Days It's Epsom but could pass for Epping, 23177
15: And Then Some The anger past 25178
16: Animals And The Stars Crickets are a strange place, 16158
17: Antarctica Perhaps it is needed to balance the planet: to provide 35156
18: Approaching Thirty (Lauds And Matins) Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus 22181
19: Asgard In the ardour 12146
20: At The Red Throat In youth, Death was 46153
21: Automobile Soft Legs Now, it came to pass that a seasoned young diner 13166
22: Barbary White How death will steal, from life, to claim us all, 4158
23: Bargaining Unit The man about to become a sparrow 23114
24: Bedroom Glass Counted three white pigeons 10203
25: Bee An Apple The taste of an apple, 8185
26: Begin And Beguile If brains be gables & minds, say, the shutters 24164
27: Belize Giving myself permission to write - 99154
28: Between Two Stones They poured hot water into people's cups 7159
29: Blackamoor Breaking up - 51149
30: Bloodcount My mind had almost died. 21154
31: Bloodstream Camping out, a miraculous thing happened. 15182
32: Blue*Eyed Grasses Rocky shale, pale voile, 20158
33: Boca Nature abhors a vacuum", theorists of both philosophy and politics assure us. 180174
34: Braggadocio Chess playing Death 62140
35: Bravura Memory as embankment, 15151
36: Brébeuf Brébeuf is looking at the land that bears his namesake. 5165
37: Brushstroke On rue Vincingetorix, 14186
38: Buzz Phrase Down on your luck 19153
39: Canadian Book Review Annual 1985 Le voyage exotique devient parfois fantistique. 4137
40: Candlelight In Black The ghosts are marmalade 23145
41: Canvassing And I thought of things, 12160
42: Cape Of Good Hope Poltergeist activity 14194
43: Carnival And Lent Jungle, the cave 46143
44: Casha A child-like fawn 16163
45: Casting Rocks Merely on edge, 20179
46: Chain Letter I'm sitting in a "sixties bar." No put-on. 27296
47: Chance Upon As she's lying there in sherbet panties 18178
48: Chemin De Fer Had I been 36179
49: Chinatown I And a little farther 10173
50: Chinatown-I As they are crawling up to you 10162
51: Chopsticks Only marginal chances 11142
52: Chrysalis Fury of chrysalis, or crepuscular caterpillar's roosting nest, 19166
53: Cienfuegos The white pin wheel of heat turns up the grasses' edge. 16131
54: City The Insects Invade The old man sleeps with his weeping. 4155
55: Clandestine Operation The most appropriate comment, 13149
56: Claws Unfolding gazes 8204
57: Clippership Pausing to see 14166
58: Cold Passion The land is barren 27158
59: Colette The waitress mainlines 19154
60: Collusion A surtax on the ecosystem; 10160
61: Comments Unrestrained, imaginative writing. 20130
62: Comments Unrestrained, imaginative writing. 6162
63: Corner Store Fifties Reveille I met Bear at the 5 n' dime 16165
64: Countess The pig's head omelette - 18142
65: Countess II Imagining the smoke burnt 22171
66: Crying Scene If you're going to drop the gauntlet 12152
67: Cuando-Cubango Moths, if they dream dusk, 33149
68: Cubits A woman is a trough 16199
69: Cud There were a series 52195
70: Currency One of the cows was Belladonna, 10189
71: Darkening Green My mind, rarely with me alone, 7198
72: Dash Into Realism: Escape Pad From The Sixties For one, street argot became tougher. 15147
73: Debriefing I won't envy the heat this August. 48144
74: Desire Sleep is a striking woman 21172
75: Desire Sleep is a striking woman 22139
76: Devastation Little red berries are 13149
77: Dinner At Eight At times, I thought of swizzling white rum 55152
78: Distemper Looking into the glassy crucifix of water. 13168
79: Dress Rehearsal The universe is expanding 102147
80: Dry Guillotine In my childhood, "Verdun," meant madness. 44147
81: East Of Oswego Ticonderoga to Lake George, 23209
82: Electra Fantasy, Capri. The edge of a pillow. 13207
83: Embers As you enter into dream - 8225
84: Emptiness The threadbare uniforms 9169
85: Empty Warriors The jungle where the meow goes in, is 9142
86: Ending Up reads like 17154
87: Entry Point Ants colonized it 24220
88: Equinox The four Equinox sisters, 44157
89: Errands Somewhere in the distance a dog kept at his baying. 17172
90: Every Man's Hand raised against them 69162
91: Eyes Inside There's cadence 6311
92: Eyeshine I remember the world like a picture. 29155
93: Fabulist Riel veritably in a cockpit - 29198
94: Fence Line That Captain Kidd scribbling of rock in the fields 25172
95: Fire Bush If flies be dragons 15174
96: Fishing Nets The polar stars drip in blood . . . 9173
97: Flashpoint The moon has a larder 33135
98: Flood White ermine/white semen, 19178
99: For Tom Thomson I have thrust my fists 44169
100: Forest Spittle The preciseness of that little moment, 6202
101: Fortress Snow The embankment lies as heavy 23141
102: Gangland A sailor, "tatoo you," 40187
103: Ghost Tales With leaves twitching 20145
104: Gladiators No broken visor, emptied glove 7226
105: Godiva Lingerie, 20197
106: Gossamer Threads I feel like cutting my finger, 12151
107: Gourds A cemetery overgrown 6191
108: Green Angellights Green angel lights 16157
109: Green Eye Shields I have stars drying in my eyes. 12135
110: Guadalquivir In a pleasureless world, pure pleasure exists. 19157
111: Hamomlette A VICTIM OF INDIGESTION OR PATRICIDE? 10161
112: Hannibal When Hannibal mowed down Romans 17122
113: Hardcases I dreamed my toenails 75141
114: Haunted Child In the dark of wedlock 8180
115: Headdress Stravinsky's Firebird, 24157
116: Helluland We built bottlecaps off 30147
117: Hewanorra The moon, at most a shudder or two away. 18131
118: Hidden Agenda Mariachis, almost a Spanish temperament within those stars, 26201
119: High Frequency Draw (High Alert) Les bougies sur les tombeaux 4170
120: High Roller Terrorism - 121144
121: Highgate Angel Inn, 37178
122: Homuncular Forms Cape aux Morts. 24146
123: Humboldt's Current Cresta roja wine 16172
124: Il Giardino Cloves on the table. 18132
125: Illuminaire Elfin & gold bug, 19280
126: Imagistic There in the cosmos - 15160
127: In My Books The way I figure it, a number of people are 15141
128: In The Cenote Under a candlelit operetta 24216
129: Inside Seam Having wilderness cracks 45122
130: Investiture Our nights have cruel eyes 20146
131: Isles And Rivulets On your brow, the steppes of Asia 23131
132: Jabiru Clarence, the pipe stem would grow hot with rage 9161
133: Jagged Wire A rail fence is more than that on a country dawn 14179
134: Juniper Trees Sitting as Buddha on a chocolate juniper 27148
135: Kindling As a matter of fact, 11163
136: King And John Streets (For Isabella Vacancy Crawford) When the shadows are hungry 31172
137: Kipper, Tea And Oranges Our lives evaporating as we talk, 14208
138: Kith And Kin Once there was a giant 42166
139: Knight-Errant A well-thumbed book 56156
140: Kublai Khan The Japanese are coming! Now there's a fresh twist 78127
141: La Douce Mer Too greedy hormonal levels, 13158
142: Landing Schemes Omens are the cloth of dreams 10141
143: Lavender A mind is a ray of light running to the sea; 51155
144: Leaf Doctor You said happiness was a bird 8186
145: Leaves Of The Cecropia Tree And what of privileged things 24181
146: Lithuanian Dolls /Consulate Front These eyes of dolls seem leaden stones 30159
147: Living Room If anatomy were a contact sport, 16136
148: Lolita Gardens A man weeps at your ankles, 24170
149: Lost Patrol Blue walls were grottoes, 27156
150: Made In Space Mood food. In deep, deep water 15179
151: Magpie Tongues Trillium breath, an ounce 21141
152: Mail Drop A boat sits on the very shallows 27176
153: Malingering Malingering, 10198
154: Man In the old air 14154
155: Mangroves How do you survive 24157
156: Mangroves How do you survive 35180
157: Marzipan A thick hole in the dark 35154
158: Men Of Shade All the candles are passing out, one by one. 6169
159: Metaphor There is a star near 37146
160: Midpoint The thin, feathery blue 8150
161: Mirage The intense focus of light 17174
162: Moccasin Backwoods cabin, opera house 19161
163: Moon Dark World The trees 7190
164: Moonrock She wears a cat encrusted T-shirt 36157
165: Naiad Trance The leaves on their trumpet flames 41194
166: Night Fishing At Antibes A beach back of bric à brac, 35338
167: Night Sky I can call a lake a kettle 19156
168: Night Winds They made us sit alphabetically in rows. 10130
169: Northwoods Poem Watermelon, 19137
170: Not So Much I evaded capture today 46152
171: Ocean Sea Cueta and Tetuan are outposts within the Arab psyche, 52172
172: Offerings (A Movement In Four Parts) The night is folly without the moon, 78257
173: Old Brompton Road Death is but a sleep 28150
174: Onomatopoeia One thing about this type of education, 12188
175: Oracabessa An iron wrought gate of turpentine force conveys little pigment, 22160
176: Orange Lichens Orange lichens, in sun-like clusters, 21165
177: Orifice To perforate in adumbration, 5173
178: Palais Royale The night cold as nuggets, dark as acorn, 14146
179: Paleface Old Sawbones, pale as a sheet, 19156
180: Passageways Greet the days 72176
181: Passing I should be busy with words 6180
182: Pastiche These shell-queens, too, 48143
183: Peculiar Morning As if every living thing lived, breathed 6157
184: Pelée The night before ... 29191
185: Pelée: May 8, 1902 With the smile of morning 37138
186: Pencil Sketches Staying home, 13157
187: Penny Wise, Pound Poor Fall was a tubercular cousin 38168
188: Perhaps Perhaps the sky once was shadows, 6192
189: Picaroon Scouting the sun 67142
190: Picpus The day I went to LaFayette's grave, the 37201
191: Pillage It's chess of sorts but 35171
192: Piltdown Man Popping out of the dark 55149
193: Plaudits Loki, the Norwegian god of mischief, 2179
194: Plums & Vine Plums and vine (as the Atlantic is green) 10178
195: Poetry Canada Poesie wry humour. 4193
196: Poets Are Magic Beings She sits within the Magic Lantern 25162
197: Pogrom There is an unhurried resemblance to pain, here, 11172
198: Point Spread Off memory 69143
199: Ponchontas Years ago, when life was too violent for any to live very old, 6159
200: Pondicherry Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle piece 18146
201: Pondicherry Chess pieces resting upon the jade 25141
202: Preening The sky is red and comes 15170
203: Presence Of Mind Spring heralds the summer with lilacs perched from that door. 14174
204: Primavera A poem is perishable and, 19148
205: Prospectus In salt flats, 18158
206: Pyromania She had a fireplace - 11147
207: Rain Film On the night of the rains, 21157
208: Reading The Tides: Petroglyph Park A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun 35184
209: Red Fox (Red Horse Lake) A magnificent Red Devil 16165
210: Red Illusions Under Glass Life as green illusion - 15154
211: Refresher Course And he told them "the universe is a ripe apple in heavenly 10143
212: Regalia If the rich are different 15135
213: Regalia If the rich are different 15171
214: Resignation Petals that fall into a woodland pool 6218
215: Rip Rip, an inarticulate dog with a namesake derivative of more. 11199
216: Rites Of Intensification Did time on the Hegelian 13129
217: Rocking Horse Fate is a mahout astride a large elephant, impersonal 10143
218: Rogue And Privateer The Squirrel, a corsair, 11171
219: Rouge And Gray So much time has passed 27138
220: Rowing With Crayons I see children rowing with crayons 8166
221: Sabbat Picturesque Tituba, steeped in Obeah, 41159
222: San Cristobal A gypsy sits in a taverna 44161
223: Sanguine Imagine, being told cubism isn't painting. That 77131
224: Santo Domingo In the crypt with Columbus 24175
225: Seaeggs The reef was inviting, her languid coral nudging the breakers 18177
226: Seagulls I see many thoughts from a window. 6226
227: Seaward Whirl of patterned images, 17154
228: Sentry In Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream, eyes 8195
229: Sequin A youthful bandit 24157
230: Serenade A green flotilla, 36140
231: Serpentine More fragment of tree 13179
232: Shamrock Is there anything prettier than that - 30171
233: Shivaree These kettle bells. 48177
234: Sideway Look It's snowing and all I can think of 19149
235: Silver Coins Seen the whores in doorsteps, 12163
236: Six Owlets Six owlets sitting in a tree, 12250
237: Sixties Hangover We have all been here before. 22138
238: Skin Her emerald top 24168
239: Skootematta Sheldrake, a magician 18135
240: Slaughterhouse You're the aggressor 44130
241: Sleigh Bells In fury, come the Heavens, 8162
242: Slipper When I was very young 12168
243: Smears A snowy morning 5189
244: Smokestack A small fish, 8186
245: Southwark I noticed a bust of Shakespeare, an effigy in stone with 19143
246: Spanked Buying up egg rolls at 50¢ a kick, 15147
247: Stillness Invitingly, the sea shines her stars, 12160
248: Stone Guide She was fading - 12150
249: Street Scene No open barge 8173
250: Summer's Clock Two is a fonder number gracing the clock than one 4146
251: Sweet Water The leaves lie hidden as spades about their home. 16150
252: Swords And Roses Some lives have themes. 68164
253: Tales Of Brave Ulysses Artists (astrologers never lie) 24154
254: Tank-Top I was playing sonatas on your skin - 34167
255: Teeter-Totter He was Popeye the Sailor Man 14140
256: Terminal Living The image complete 115168
257: Testimony When snow falls, there lives 10167
258: The Assignation (Pons Asinorum) Many devils are in woods, in waters, in wilderness and in dark, 28187
259: The Bay Of Cortes The sea is a requisitioned article in my possession. 24148
260: The Bells The dangling of bells 17152
261: The Bloodfish A story about tears that became minnows and sobs large fishes in their place. 5179
262: The Breath Of Candles The breath of candles, 7129
263: The Bullfrog He sat with no more compunction 21162
264: The Burning The sun is a burning magnet on the water. 24193
265: The Cable Car The Haitian effect of stars 18162
266: The Camera Cage As a child, all common sense decreed 20164
267: The Clearing That Is The Trees I want to go walking in troubled marshes 51151
268: The Crowkeeper I see grindstones in the sky, 33173
269: The Draper's Cloth I imagine stars at the dragon's tail, 20190
270: The East Is Red We can survive a nuclear War. It's scarcely credible, 89155
271: The Elysian Fields The Elysian fields 23167
272: The Encounter Today surprised me 8150
273: The Garden And like a cobbler at a bench 30167
274: The Garden Patch Gourd was taken to task when she understood the limitations 10159
275: The Gathering Of Dead Wood The gathering of dead wood - driven, 18172
276: The Gingham Dream Utterance As I watch the clouds assemble, steam-ship fashion 28155
277: The Glowworm In slow sutures of pale white - 15179
278: The Hire Corn's high this year," chirped the old woman 25166
279: The Hydaspes And I, cooing in my saddle, with lost time. 18191
280: The Intruder The colouring of spacious flowers rove delicious to the eye. 16159
281: The Jolly Tupper Sun on the eiderdown 18342
282: The Keeper Of The Jewel The keeper of the jewel. 13180
283: The Monarch She wanted her beauty too soon and must now forfeit it for the moment. 5162
284: The Necklace Garden For my part, I spied red berries 33150
285: The Nightlamp Like a wail in the back of an inflammed throat 11175
286: The Pelly, The Powder And The Snake The cowboy's overriding presence in North America 9155
287: The Poetry Pond Everyone is a poet, or so the philosopher said. The world teems 37175
288: The Potato Eaters The potato eaters 15151
289: The Rake's Progress I borrow De Quincey's Confessions 22159
290: The River Cuts A Channel People with money but no fortune 7165
291: The Sandpit Bertrand had been surprised by the recoil of his father's rifle. 16176
292: The Spoken Word I touch your 13153
293: The Strongbox He was always the one to figure things, 24168
294: The Toronto Star The poetry is fine... rewarding reading... 4208
295: The Toronto Star, Saturday, November 30, 1985 Bare bones future 11165
296: The Treasure Ships Rich ornamental procession 36170
297: The Wager I can live an adventuresome life vicariously through my characters. 49187
298: The Waters Of The Bay Lie Beneath An abandoned house 31201
299: The Woodsman Barely annoying the woods, 20191
300: The World Of Dying Love The long finger of blackness is holding its head for us. 19135
301: The World Of Tezcatlipoca the fourth state of water in its plasmic state 23143
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. 43144
303: Tickings Of A Clock I began to see old lanterns, books 22163
304: Tide Charts To create dream - 64157
305: To Cross The Bay I wouldn't try a crossing in weather like this 21165
306: To Sit Arrayed To sit arrayed 19134
307: Toronto Quennelles. Lady of the Gold Horse with Diamond Eyes. 9157
308: Toronto In Toronto, trendy bars absolutely must have a theme 31155
309: Trespass I would imagine 6172
310: Triangular Trade I would watch him lifting 11204
311: Trinkets My mind a buzz saw, 12132
312: Trout Lake Hotel The walls don't lack sincerity, here, 21141
313: Turncoat Sitting in the spendthrift dark 32163
314: Tussaud's In the wax museum with Attila and Genghis and Tamerlane 57172
315: Twillingate We all end up badly and 21171
316: Twinkling Of An Eye On twin tails of a comet 14268
317: Undulate, My Tongue My tongue undulates, a wave to shore, 11161
318: Unpaginated Orchestrating violins thru whisky sky 63136
319: Up From The Floor They sit in silence. In camera, around the table. 8146
320: Upturn The Rock Upon the rocks where the baubles of broken blue glass wink 7174
321: Vertigo We're travelling down a carnival road, are met at intersections by 19177
322: Viewer Mail The sky was 19153
323: Village Idiot Dodder capitulates on his bum, 16176
324: Voyage The mystique of the sea, 10146
325: Vulcans Adder toothed flowers snake 27179
326: Wanderlust Who administers to my needs? 61158
327: Warhorse Taken as metaphor ... 33170
328: Water Fast (The Pearl Fishers) Shopping in their heads 54136
329: What Became Of The Sixties? The "Haight," in Ashbury lived up to its name. 18125
330: What Colour Is Love? Sixties idols were built to last. 22162
331: When I Was A Much Younger Man When I was a much younger man, 48120
332: When Labouring To Break Perhaps one is in prison - 21159
333: Where A dark, shadow grey moth 12193
334: Whisky Girl I like'em ragged round the rim, 9167
335: Whispers Suppose and this is just supposing, 16166
336: White China Plates I The moon hummed like a refrigerator, 46132
337: White China Plates II You could have driven 13155
338: Wild Card Clayton brothers at the corral, 10169
339: Wincing You can't go back, 22134
340: Windfall Photos along a soft-centred wall 38163
341: Within Reach There are two images, 30178
342: Woodsy Backwoods Poem I saw Bear 30131
343: Work In Progress Two Chinese fellows approached me in a London suburb. 100139
344: Yellow Hair With that lime green hairnet 13156




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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