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Profile in hard glint of light - Paul Cameron Brown "Ace of Spades"

Elbowed thru a Deadwood City saloon door - Paul Cameron Brown "Ace of Spades"

Image throttled in the subconscious - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"

To eclipse pyramidal fires set as beacons - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"

Beacons along rock strewn shores - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"

Skeletal inhabitants on ice flows - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"

Carrying the plight of the Andes in their mouth - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"

An anvil coming loose in the brain - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"

Escape thru the maw of an Arctic sea - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"

Felt no pain against the water - Paul Cameron Brown "Ambergris City"

A bitter legacy consumed itself in half-truths - Paul Cameron Brown "Ambergris City"

Half-truths against the sound of upturned lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Ambergris City"

Sniffing out the edge of completed walls - Paul Cameron Brown "Ambergris City"

Through the apricot fire of dark - Paul Cameron Brown "Ambergris City"

Red trash cans against indentured snow - Paul Cameron Brown "Ambergris City"

Clutching their holly on Roanoke island - Paul Cameron Brown "Ancient of Days"

Ash tight fingers, the steel laws of fate - Paul Cameron Brown "Barbary White"

Three white pigeons on a roof - Paul Cameron Brown "Bedroom Glass"

Pelting the window with ice beads - Paul Cameron Brown "Bedroom Glass"

Torn from the throat of night - Paul Cameron Brown "The Bells"

Within the dash of withered bells - Paul Cameron Brown "The Bells"

In a midnight turn of the bottle - Paul Cameron Brown "Bravura"

A burning magnet on the water - Paul Cameron Brown "The Burning"

Troubled vistas blue with hegemony - Paul Cameron Brown "The Burning"

Despair and the pig iron law of economics - Paul Cameron Brown "Buzz Phrase"

Where honey-fuelled [sic] ants sooth enemy bones - Paul Cameron Brown "Carnival and Lent"

Plague rats cluster in a feeding frenzy - Paul Cameron Brown "Carnival and Lent"

Firing up the flashlight in the dark - Paul Cameron Brown "Carnival and Lent"

All the birds in grace sigh at Saint Francis - Paul Cameron Brown "Casha"

The window is up on the future now - Paul Cameron Brown "Chain Letter"

That silence comes as its own reward - Paul Cameron Brown "Chain Letter"

Chance upon dark laughter - Paul Cameron Brown "Chance Upon"

The reptile caress of empty sound - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"

Molten over toughened silken hide - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"

The white pin wheel of heat - Paul Cameron Brown "Cienfuegos"

Then melt openly into layers of fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Cienfuegos"

Stammering in the too crowded sun - Paul Cameron Brown "Clandestine Operation"

Covers dungeons of angry sparrows - Paul Cameron Brown "The Clearing that Is the Trees"

Caught in swift eddies as the tide goes out - Paul Cameron Brown "The Clearing that Is the Trees"

Rub troubled memories from my eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "The Clearing that Is the Trees"

What's next in the social roller derby? - Paul Cameron Brown "Dash Into Realism: Escape Pad from the Sixties"

Warring desires thus present themselves - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"

Sleep bestowing her favours illicitly - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"

Hunger comes arrayed in red plumes - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"

Fear, the most thwarted of the suitors - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"

Bits of life amidst the spores of stillness - Paul Cameron Brown "Devastation"

Night crumbling under shafts of starlight - Paul Cameron Brown "Distemper"

Stars at the dragon's tail - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"

With the pitiless gesture of a sparrow - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"

Arouse trees in envy - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"

Explosions to cap the wind - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"

Ploughing breakers across both sea and night - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"

Cages around the intellect - Paul Cameron Brown "Dry Guillotine"

Time was a poor keeper of souls - Paul Cameron Brown "Dry Guillotine"

Wore out all but a fragment of my memories - Paul Cameron Brown "Dry Guillotine"

An upturned rock for someone to trip on - Paul Cameron Brown "Dry Guillotine"

With a different opiate for the masses - Paul Cameron Brown "The East Is Red"

And there's no one to discern the difference - Paul Cameron Brown "The East Is Red"

A forest of 'maybes' has already sprouted - Paul Cameron Brown "The East Is Red"

A forest of dust clouding the collective vision - Paul Cameron Brown "The East Is Red"

Disbelief is the escape hatch - Paul Cameron Brown "The East Is Red"

In the jargon of the strategists - Paul Cameron Brown "The East Is Red"

Fledgelings in a world ill begotten - Paul Cameron Brown "The Elysian Fields"

Excludes nothing except why it was done - Paul Cameron Brown "Emptiness"

Empty warriors breakfast on lost impatience - Paul Cameron Brown "Empty Warriors"

All take their calculated toll - Paul Cameron Brown "Fabulist"

Brambles where wasps go - Paul Cameron Brown "Fire Bush"

Into canopies through stars - Paul Cameron Brown "Fire Bush"

The breath of summer eclipsed - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

The transient wrappings upon our lives - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

The peaked remains of snow streaked sun - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

Clarity of the temporal fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

Fire set by the staccato of man's rhythm - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

Acolyte stars in hymnal to the wind - Paul Cameron Brown "Gangland"

Realism hastening down that leaden street - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gathering of Dead Wood"

A spark upon which minnows play - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gingham Dream Utterance"

Narrowly hauled from rambunctious depths - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gingham Dream Utterance"

Pomegranates undigested by the moon - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gingham Dream Utterance"

Beseech her with bitter songs stolen - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gingham Dream Utterance"

Light dripping upon forlorn gossamer - Paul Cameron Brown "Gossamer Threads"

A glitter of awful gold steals me - Paul Cameron Brown "Green Eye Shields"

Jagged blade & arrow backward into time - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"

Marooned in the Land God gave Cain - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"

Inchoate in their pensive rivulets - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"

The scorpion cloth of open wounds - Paul Cameron Brown "Hidden Agenda"

Blown sideways in the sugar and ices night - Paul Cameron Brown "Highgate"

A map that charts more bloody lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Humboldt's Current"

Under a candlelit operetta of stars - Paul Cameron Brown "In the Cenote"

The vertigo horizon trails to a shudder - Paul Cameron Brown "In the Cenote"

Our nights have cruel eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"

Divested the attention of the wind - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"

Props to heighten necessary lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"

Serrated edge of the known world - Paul Cameron Brown "Isles and Rivulets"

Horses with hooves to split cobblestones - Paul Cameron Brown "The Jolly Tupper"

The stone filled ravines of the rich man's heart - Paul Cameron Brown "The Jolly Tupper"

Busy disguising the jaded and unproved - Paul Cameron Brown "The Keeper of the Jewel"

The endless seams of the mind - Paul Cameron Brown "King and John Streets"

Thought lassoing all the stars assembled - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Marching blue legions across the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

A word to be eaten with persimmon and pears - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Making a curry of the forest floor - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Leaves as trinkets bartered to the wind - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Hand-me-down messages for the ages - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

The sieve of the land breaking bread with sea - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

In the mountain fastness of the mind - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Look out upon further marvels - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Collision of sound with twilight - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

To administer their own bromide of fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

A band-aid patch of lightning - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

The juxtaposition of mind with energy - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

That abundance of cold yellow eye - Paul Cameron Brown "Mangroves"

To cloak the sky with pillow whispers - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"

The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"

Pierced by the radar alum of wasps - Paul Cameron Brown "The Necklace Garden"

Insect angels strumming away the afterlife - Paul Cameron Brown "The Necklace Garden"

Arrived as ghosts to comfort me - Paul Cameron Brown "The Necklace Garden"

Steadfast winds dark about portside - Paul Cameron Brown "Night Fishing at Antibes"

Shooting holes thru theories of his untimely death - Paul Cameron Brown "1920's Flicker"

Scissors to open twilight - Paul Cameron Brown "Not So Much"

Breathless squadrons of Dragon Flies - Paul Cameron Brown "Orange Lichen"

Then paint the world in aperture - Paul Cameron Brown "Oriface"

Against hungry faces of expendable pawns - Paul Cameron Brown "Pillage"

On that first night of Storm - Paul Cameron Brown "Pillage"

Another dart for a King's crossbow - Paul Cameron Brown "Pillage"

Boiler rooms hum with the tooth and nail - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

Mind washed clean, scrubbed down - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

But the Big Top can't accommodate all - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

To court the ringmaster's favour - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

Confounding reality, fingering experience - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

Lay ransom to this queen of arts - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

Within reach of this uncontrolled mitosis - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

Coins flip on the outcome - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"

Spread across the yawn of death - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"

The sharp edge of beetles clicking in the dark - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"

Institutionalized evil and rabid passion - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"

Revenge pursued beyond the final resting place - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"

Floating in a cloud of formaldehyde - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"

Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"

Sharp tridents beside private lairs - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"

Ringed with steel laughter of another winter - Paul Cameron Brown "Preening"

Wringing sweat from the eyes of the road - Paul Cameron Brown "Preening"

Across a table top of tension - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"

Rain and silence paid another call - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"

The same substance that dooms the water to be - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"

Misplacing the volume in transit from the checkpoint - Paul Cameron Brown "The Rake's Progress"

The duplicity of a continued numbers game - Paul Cameron Brown "The Rake's Progress"

Down dancing imagess of the underworld - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"

A thought encased in deep, riverine bowels - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"

Silent Lake with something of wild dimensions - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"

With glyphs & a cabalistic moon of May - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"

Dark matter & a castle of leaves - Paul Cameron Brown "Red Fox (Red Horse Lake)"

A hooligan run wild littering the streets - Paul Cameron Brown "Rouge and Gray"

In verdant outcrops of the imagination - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"

Fuelled [sic] by a beldame's winter fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"

Amid sparks that prance with devils - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"

Arm curled, in desperation, about the moon - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"

The sea is a wretch's bitter vinegar - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"

Surrounded by sawdust intellects - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

Proust not being able to write his name - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

An alarm clock set to buzz at eternity's gate - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

When confronting a Picasso without the vantage of hindsight - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

Forward looking voyeurs of hundred years back - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

A welter of other pseudo impressive formula abound - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

To help out in your witchhunt - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

Signs coded in stars speeding across the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

Perhaps a surfeit of absinthe helps - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

Seagulls in the fashion of summer - Paul Cameron Brown "Seagulls"

Images of what we refuse to follow - Paul Cameron Brown "Seagulls"

Stone hand encased in an arm of ocean - Paul Cameron Brown "Serenade"

A jukebox that came of age - Paul Cameron Brown "Sixties Hangover"

Destined to outlive their owners - Paul Cameron Brown "Sixties Hangover"

The mysticism of basic shadows - Paul Cameron Brown "Skootematta"

Antiseptic thrill of green sawdust - Paul Cameron Brown "Slaughterhouse"

Cuttlefish in this unnatural forest - Paul Cameron Brown "Slaughterhouse"

A world where wood became noise - Paul Cameron Brown "Slaughterhouse"

Through more than decibels of rage - Paul Cameron Brown "Slaughterhouse"

The tobacco the days of my life - Paul Cameron Brown "Toronto"

Enough wealth to dazzle a Prester John - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"

Midas' gold or Krupp's iron wealth secured - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"

A ransom parleyed agains the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"

Sitting in the spendthrift dark - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"

Mortality in the incest breath of life - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"

Mindful of time and aching, decaying things - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"

Speaking of depleted journeys - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"

Worlds caught in a single glance - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"

Back from the pace of a single thought - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"

The occasional gesture at remembering - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Mindless clerks administering my life from afar - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Served up as horror epics - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"
Live out the threadbare future promises - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Making decisions out of ignorance - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Entering a world of his own design - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Made a crime punishable by fate - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Every wrong syllable or misbegotten accent - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

The unchronicled petty evil of our times - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

On twin tails of a comet - Paul Cameron Brown "Twinkling of an Eye"

A pitcher of inky black upended - Paul Cameron Brown "Twinkling of an Eye"

Travelling down a carnival road - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"

Eyes in collapsed black holes - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"

Eke out a living on storybook memories - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"

The sea, where waves act as snares - Paul Cameron Brown "Voyage"

Calligraphy in broken stone - Paul Cameron Brown "Vulcans"

Innocence learned a lot from experience - Paul Cameron Brown "What Became of the Sixties"

Resurrected by phenomena of the eager - Paul Cameron Brown "What Became of the Sixties"

Survived even the commune experience - Paul Cameron Brown "What Became of the Sixties"

Another dreadful anachronism - Paul Cameron Brown "What Colour Is Love?"

The first generation in history - Paul Cameron Brown "What Colour Is Love?"

Hazy in myopic seclusion - Paul Cameron Brown "What Colour Is Love?"

In the train of the moon - Paul Cameron Brown "When I was a Much Younger Man"

Tumbleweed junction for numerous lives - Paul Cameron Brown "Wild Card"

Encased in a memory of stone - Paul Cameron Brown "Wild Card"

Curled like a Morning Glory about the ribs of day - Paul Cameron Brown "Wincing"

Everyone repeats not going back - Paul Cameron Brown "Wincing"

A sly ripple on the cape of wind - Paul Cameron Brown "Wincing"

Prying forth a directory of mouth-watering choice - Paul Cameron Brown "Windfall"

Black space that speaks the aeons - Paul Cameron Brown "Windfall"

Bloodshot and ringed with nettled stone - Paul Cameron Brown "The World of Tezcatlipoca"

Broken with vengeance of uprooted vine - Paul Cameron Brown "The World of Tezcatlipoca"

Poet's bio at simple-poetry.com.

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