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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: 1920's Flicker John Dillinger and Baby-Faced Nelson 22136
2: A Face A face in the mist, with rain around, 5160
3: A Thief's Notebook Baggage. Banal brigands, 9135
4: Ace Of Spades Parable as metaphor - 21160
5: Adua Adua had never regarded his life as a pantomime. 10100
6: Adventurer How desert islands 24136
7: Adversaries He held his hands like plastic - 19129
8: Ahoy Image throttled in the subconscious, 24120
9: Airbrush Iced coffee, 28112
10: Alcatraz White ibis/blue crane, 18114
11: Ambergris City Felt no pain against the water, 15128
12: Amherst Island In winter, you were 33118
13: Ancestral Memory Patrician to my plebian, 2298
14: Ancient Of Days It's Epsom but could pass for Epping, 23129
15: And Then Some The anger past 25126
16: Animals And The Stars Crickets are a strange place, 16117
17: Antarctica Perhaps it is needed to balance the planet: to provide 35116
18: Approaching Thirty (Lauds And Matins) Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus 22132
19: Asgard In the ardour 12103
20: At The Red Throat In youth, Death was 46116
21: Automobile Soft Legs Now, it came to pass that a seasoned young diner 13118
22: Barbary White How death will steal, from life, to claim us all, 4118
23: Bargaining Unit The man about to become a sparrow 2386
24: Bedroom Glass Counted three white pigeons 10163
25: Bee An Apple The taste of an apple, 8106
26: Begin And Beguile If brains be gables & minds, say, the shutters 24122
27: Belize Giving myself permission to write - 99116
28: Between Two Stones They poured hot water into people's cups 7116
29: Blackamoor Breaking up - 51110
30: Bloodcount My mind had almost died. 21113
31: Bloodstream Camping out, a miraculous thing happened. 15129
32: Blue*Eyed Grasses Rocky shale, pale voile, 20115
33: Boca Nature abhors a vacuum", theorists of both philosophy and politics assure us. 180120
34: Braggadocio Chess playing Death 62105
35: Bravura Memory as embankment, 15106
36: Brébeuf Brébeuf is looking at the land that bears his namesake. 5113
37: Brushstroke On rue Vincingetorix, 14136
38: Buzz Phrase Down on your luck 19114
39: Canadian Book Review Annual 1985 Le voyage exotique devient parfois fantistique. 498
40: Candlelight In Black The ghosts are marmalade 23100
41: Canvassing And I thought of things, 12114
42: Cape Of Good Hope Poltergeist activity 14152
43: Carnival And Lent Jungle, the cave 46110
44: Casha A child-like fawn 16114
45: Casting Rocks Merely on edge, 20134
46: Chain Letter I'm sitting in a "sixties bar." No put-on. 27174
47: Chance Upon As she's lying there in sherbet panties 18131
48: Chemin De Fer Had I been 36141
49: Chinatown I And a little farther 10127
50: Chinatown-I As they are crawling up to you 10104
51: Chopsticks Only marginal chances 1199
52: Chrysalis Fury of chrysalis, or crepuscular caterpillar's roosting nest, 19120
53: Cienfuegos The white pin wheel of heat turns up the grasses' edge. 1691
54: City The Insects Invade The old man sleeps with his weeping. 4112
55: Clandestine Operation The most appropriate comment, 13111
56: Claws Unfolding gazes 8117
57: Clippership Pausing to see 14119
58: Cold Passion The land is barren 27114
59: Colette The waitress mainlines 19105
60: Collusion A surtax on the ecosystem; 10120
61: Comments Unrestrained, imaginative writing. 20100
62: Comments Unrestrained, imaginative writing. 6108
63: Corner Store Fifties Reveille I met Bear at the 5 n' dime 16113
64: Countess The pig's head omelette - 1898
65: Countess II Imagining the smoke burnt 22122
66: Crying Scene If you're going to drop the gauntlet 12111
67: Cuando-Cubango Moths, if they dream dusk, 33114
68: Cubits A woman is a trough 16148
69: Cud There were a series 52143
70: Currency One of the cows was Belladonna, 10131
71: Darkening Green My mind, rarely with me alone, 7122
72: Dash Into Realism: Escape Pad From The Sixties For one, street argot became tougher. 15103
73: Debriefing I won't envy the heat this August. 48104
74: Desire Sleep is a striking woman 21125
75: Desire Sleep is a striking woman 2297
76: Devastation Little red berries are 13108
77: Dinner At Eight At times, I thought of swizzling white rum 55112
78: Distemper Looking into the glassy crucifix of water. 13120
79: Dress Rehearsal The universe is expanding 102105
80: Dry Guillotine In my childhood, "Verdun," meant madness. 44110
81: East Of Oswego Ticonderoga to Lake George, 23162
82: Electra Fantasy, Capri. The edge of a pillow. 13157
83: Embers As you enter into dream - 8126
84: Emptiness The threadbare uniforms 9123
85: Empty Warriors The jungle where the meow goes in, is 9111
86: Ending Up reads like 17111
87: Entry Point Ants colonized it 24107
88: Equinox The four Equinox sisters, 44120
89: Errands Somewhere in the distance a dog kept at his baying. 17130
90: Every Man's Hand raised against them 69127
91: Eyes Inside There's cadence 6153
92: Eyeshine I remember the world like a picture. 29120
93: Fabulist Riel veritably in a cockpit - 29148
94: Fence Line That Captain Kidd scribbling of rock in the fields 25129
95: Fire Bush If flies be dragons 15130
96: Fishing Nets The polar stars drip in blood . . . 9131
97: Flashpoint The moon has a larder 3397
98: Flood White ermine/white semen, 19126
99: For Tom Thomson I have thrust my fists 44125
100: Forest Spittle The preciseness of that little moment, 6120
101: Fortress Snow The embankment lies as heavy 23103
102: Gangland A sailor, "tatoo you," 40141
103: Ghost Tales With leaves twitching 20106
104: Gladiators No broken visor, emptied glove 7158
105: Godiva Lingerie, 20140
106: Gossamer Threads I feel like cutting my finger, 12106
107: Gourds A cemetery overgrown 6107
108: Green Angellights Green angel lights 16115
109: Green Eye Shields I have stars drying in my eyes. 1299
110: Guadalquivir In a pleasureless world, pure pleasure exists. 19112
111: Hamomlette A VICTIM OF INDIGESTION OR PATRICIDE? 10111
112: Hannibal When Hannibal mowed down Romans 1783
113: Hardcases I dreamed my toenails 75102
114: Haunted Child In the dark of wedlock 8105
115: Headdress Stravinsky's Firebird, 24115
116: Helluland We built bottlecaps off 30106
117: Hewanorra The moon, at most a shudder or two away. 1894
118: Hidden Agenda Mariachis, almost a Spanish temperament within those stars, 26152
119: High Frequency Draw (High Alert) Les bougies sur les tombeaux 499
120: High Roller Terrorism - 121107
121: Highgate Angel Inn, 37128
122: Homuncular Forms Cape aux Morts. 24108
123: Humboldt's Current Cresta roja wine 16129
124: Il Giardino Cloves on the table. 1890
125: Illuminaire Elfin & gold bug, 19169
126: Imagistic There in the cosmos - 15116
127: In My Books The way I figure it, a number of people are 15101
128: In The Cenote Under a candlelit operetta 24165
129: Inside Seam Having wilderness cracks 4597
130: Investiture Our nights have cruel eyes 20103
131: Isles And Rivulets On your brow, the steppes of Asia 2395
132: Jabiru Clarence, the pipe stem would grow hot with rage 9114
133: Jagged Wire A rail fence is more than that on a country dawn 14134
134: Juniper Trees Sitting as Buddha on a chocolate juniper 27109
135: Kindling As a matter of fact, 11116
136: King And John Streets (For Isabella Vacancy Crawford) When the shadows are hungry 31128
137: Kipper, Tea And Oranges Our lives evaporating as we talk, 14157
138: Kith And Kin Once there was a giant 42127
139: Knight-Errant A well-thumbed book 56117
140: Kublai Khan The Japanese are coming! Now there's a fresh twist 7890
141: La Douce Mer Too greedy hormonal levels, 13118
142: Landing Schemes Omens are the cloth of dreams 10107
143: Lavender A mind is a ray of light running to the sea; 51107
144: Leaf Doctor You said happiness was a bird 8121
145: Leaves Of The Cecropia Tree And what of privileged things 24144
146: Lithuanian Dolls /Consulate Front These eyes of dolls seem leaden stones 30110
147: Living Room If anatomy were a contact sport, 1699
148: Lolita Gardens A man weeps at your ankles, 24127
149: Lost Patrol Blue walls were grottoes, 27108
150: Made In Space Mood food. In deep, deep water 15140
151: Magpie Tongues Trillium breath, an ounce 21109
152: Mail Drop A boat sits on the very shallows 27124
153: Malingering Malingering, 10119
154: Man In the old air 14100
155: Mangroves How do you survive 24116
156: Mangroves How do you survive 35129
157: Marzipan A thick hole in the dark 35108
158: Men Of Shade All the candles are passing out, one by one. 6117
159: Metaphor There is a star near 37110
160: Midpoint The thin, feathery blue 8104
161: Mirage The intense focus of light 17131
162: Moccasin Backwoods cabin, opera house 19122
163: Moon Dark World The trees 7120
164: Moonrock She wears a cat encrusted T-shirt 36106
165: Naiad Trance The leaves on their trumpet flames 41144
166: Night Fishing At Antibes A beach back of bric à brac, 35238
167: Night Sky I can call a lake a kettle 19105
168: Night Winds They made us sit alphabetically in rows. 1098
169: Northwoods Poem Watermelon, 1999
170: Not So Much I evaded capture today 4697
171: Ocean Sea Cueta and Tetuan are outposts within the Arab psyche, 52124
172: Offerings (A Movement In Four Parts) The night is folly without the moon, 78135
173: Old Brompton Road Death is but a sleep 28117
174: Onomatopoeia One thing about this type of education, 12144
175: Oracabessa An iron wrought gate of turpentine force conveys little pigment, 22110
176: Orange Lichens Orange lichens, in sun-like clusters, 21124
177: Orifice To perforate in adumbration, 593
178: Palais Royale The night cold as nuggets, dark as acorn, 14113
179: Paleface Old Sawbones, pale as a sheet, 19115
180: Passageways Greet the days 72127
181: Passing I should be busy with words 6123
182: Pastiche These shell-queens, too, 4898
183: Peculiar Morning As if every living thing lived, breathed 6114
184: Pelée The night before ... 29141
185: Pelée: May 8, 1902 With the smile of morning 3799
186: Pencil Sketches Staying home, 13122
187: Penny Wise, Pound Poor Fall was a tubercular cousin 38124
188: Perhaps Perhaps the sky once was shadows, 6111
189: Picaroon Scouting the sun 6799
190: Picpus The day I went to LaFayette's grave, the 37149
191: Pillage It's chess of sorts but 35122
192: Piltdown Man Popping out of the dark 55120
193: Plaudits Loki, the Norwegian god of mischief, 2132
194: Plums & Vine Plums and vine (as the Atlantic is green) 10135
195: Poetry Canada Poesie wry humour. 4124
196: Poets Are Magic Beings She sits within the Magic Lantern 25130
197: Pogrom There is an unhurried resemblance to pain, here, 11119
198: Point Spread Off memory 69102
199: Ponchontas Years ago, when life was too violent for any to live very old, 6111
200: Pondicherry Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle piece 18104
201: Pondicherry Chess pieces resting upon the jade 2597
202: Preening The sky is red and comes 15121
203: Presence Of Mind Spring heralds the summer with lilacs perched from that door. 14135
204: Primavera A poem is perishable and, 19105
205: Prospectus In salt flats, 18112
206: Pyromania She had a fireplace - 11102
207: Rain Film On the night of the rains, 21114
208: Reading The Tides: Petroglyph Park A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun 35134
209: Red Fox (Red Horse Lake) A magnificent Red Devil 16117
210: Red Illusions Under Glass Life as green illusion - 15115
211: Refresher Course And he told them "the universe is a ripe apple in heavenly 10111
212: Regalia If the rich are different 1590
213: Regalia If the rich are different 15129
214: Resignation Petals that fall into a woodland pool 6149
215: Rip Rip, an inarticulate dog with a namesake derivative of more. 11141
216: Rites Of Intensification Did time on the Hegelian 1398
217: Rocking Horse Fate is a mahout astride a large elephant, impersonal 10108
218: Rogue And Privateer The Squirrel, a corsair, 11115
219: Rouge And Gray So much time has passed 2798
220: Rowing With Crayons I see children rowing with crayons 8122
221: Sabbat Picturesque Tituba, steeped in Obeah, 41112
222: San Cristobal A gypsy sits in a taverna 44113
223: Sanguine Imagine, being told cubism isn't painting. That 7788
224: Santo Domingo In the crypt with Columbus 24113
225: Seaeggs The reef was inviting, her languid coral nudging the breakers 18130
226: Seagulls I see many thoughts from a window. 6126
227: Seaward Whirl of patterned images, 17100
228: Sentry In Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream, eyes 8149
229: Sequin A youthful bandit 24105
230: Serenade A green flotilla, 36105
231: Serpentine More fragment of tree 13129
232: Shamrock Is there anything prettier than that - 30121
233: Shivaree These kettle bells. 48135
234: Sideway Look It's snowing and all I can think of 19113
235: Silver Coins Seen the whores in doorsteps, 12124
236: Six Owlets Six owlets sitting in a tree, 12135
237: Sixties Hangover We have all been here before. 2294
238: Skin Her emerald top 24121
239: Skootematta Sheldrake, a magician 18100
240: Slaughterhouse You're the aggressor 44102
241: Sleigh Bells In fury, come the Heavens, 8112
242: Slipper When I was very young 12117
243: Smears A snowy morning 5105
244: Smokestack A small fish, 8115
245: Southwark I noticed a bust of Shakespeare, an effigy in stone with 19100
246: Spanked Buying up egg rolls at 50¢ a kick, 15105
247: Stillness Invitingly, the sea shines her stars, 12121
248: Stone Guide She was fading - 12114
249: Street Scene No open barge 8131
250: Summer's Clock Two is a fonder number gracing the clock than one 4113
251: Sweet Water The leaves lie hidden as spades about their home. 16111
252: Swords And Roses Some lives have themes. 68123
253: Tales Of Brave Ulysses Artists (astrologers never lie) 24108
254: Tank-Top I was playing sonatas on your skin - 34112
255: Teeter-Totter He was Popeye the Sailor Man 1492
256: Terminal Living The image complete 115128
257: Testimony When snow falls, there lives 10119
258: The Assignation (Pons Asinorum) Many devils are in woods, in waters, in wilderness and in dark, 28131
259: The Bay Of Cortes The sea is a requisitioned article in my possession. 24106
260: The Bells The dangling of bells 17104
261: The Bloodfish A story about tears that became minnows and sobs large fishes in their place. 5127
262: The Breath Of Candles The breath of candles, 779
263: The Bullfrog He sat with no more compunction 21110
264: The Burning The sun is a burning magnet on the water. 24132
265: The Cable Car The Haitian effect of stars 18112
266: The Camera Cage As a child, all common sense decreed 20123
267: The Clearing That Is The Trees I want to go walking in troubled marshes 51104
268: The Crowkeeper I see grindstones in the sky, 33122
269: The Draper's Cloth I imagine stars at the dragon's tail, 20138
270: The East Is Red We can survive a nuclear War. It's scarcely credible, 89102
271: The Elysian Fields The Elysian fields 23127
272: The Encounter Today surprised me 8105
273: The Garden And like a cobbler at a bench 30100
274: The Garden Patch Gourd was taken to task when she understood the limitations 10113
275: The Gathering Of Dead Wood The gathering of dead wood - driven, 18123
276: The Gingham Dream Utterance As I watch the clouds assemble, steam-ship fashion 28112
277: The Glowworm In slow sutures of pale white - 15128
278: The Hire Corn's high this year," chirped the old woman 25111
279: The Hydaspes And I, cooing in my saddle, with lost time. 18139
280: The Intruder The colouring of spacious flowers rove delicious to the eye. 16112
281: The Jolly Tupper Sun on the eiderdown 18213
282: The Keeper Of The Jewel The keeper of the jewel. 13136
283: The Monarch She wanted her beauty too soon and must now forfeit it for the moment. 5107
284: The Necklace Garden For my part, I spied red berries 33106
285: The Nightlamp Like a wail in the back of an inflammed throat 11128
286: The Pelly, The Powder And The Snake The cowboy's overriding presence in North America 9114
287: The Poetry Pond Everyone is a poet, or so the philosopher said. The world teems 37128
288: The Potato Eaters The potato eaters 15110
289: The Rake's Progress I borrow De Quincey's Confessions 22112
290: The River Cuts A Channel People with money but no fortune 7123
291: The Sandpit Bertrand had been surprised by the recoil of his father's rifle. 16121
292: The Spoken Word I touch your 13111
293: The Strongbox He was always the one to figure things, 24114
294: The Toronto Star The poetry is fine... rewarding reading... 4126
295: The Toronto Star, Saturday, November 30, 1985 Bare bones future 11117
296: The Treasure Ships Rich ornamental procession 36125
297: The Wager I can live an adventuresome life vicariously through my characters. 49134
298: The Waters Of The Bay Lie Beneath An abandoned house 31140
299: The Woodsman Barely annoying the woods, 20143
300: The World Of Dying Love The long finger of blackness is holding its head for us. 1997
301: The World Of Tezcatlipoca the fourth state of water in its plasmic state 23100
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. 43103
303: Tickings Of A Clock I began to see old lanterns, books 22125
304: Tide Charts To create dream - 64115
305: To Cross The Bay I wouldn't try a crossing in weather like this 21127
306: To Sit Arrayed To sit arrayed 1997
307: Toronto Quennelles. Lady of the Gold Horse with Diamond Eyes. 9112
308: Toronto In Toronto, trendy bars absolutely must have a theme 31111
309: Trespass I would imagine 697
310: Triangular Trade I would watch him lifting 11132
311: Trinkets My mind a buzz saw, 12100
312: Trout Lake Hotel The walls don't lack sincerity, here, 21105
313: Turncoat Sitting in the spendthrift dark 32117
314: Tussaud's In the wax museum with Attila and Genghis and Tamerlane 57130
315: Twillingate We all end up badly and 21137
316: Twinkling Of An Eye On twin tails of a comet 14160
317: Undulate, My Tongue My tongue undulates, a wave to shore, 11132
318: Unpaginated Orchestrating violins thru whisky sky 6393
319: Up From The Floor They sit in silence. In camera, around the table. 8108
320: Upturn The Rock Upon the rocks where the baubles of broken blue glass wink 7131
321: Vertigo We're travelling down a carnival road, are met at intersections by 19113
322: Viewer Mail The sky was 19112
323: Village Idiot Dodder capitulates on his bum, 16140
324: Voyage The mystique of the sea, 10103
325: Vulcans Adder toothed flowers snake 27120
326: Wanderlust Who administers to my needs? 61113
327: Warhorse Taken as metaphor ... 33121
328: Water Fast (The Pearl Fishers) Shopping in their heads 5496
329: What Became Of The Sixties? The "Haight," in Ashbury lived up to its name. 1896
330: What Colour Is Love? Sixties idols were built to last. 22126
331: When I Was A Much Younger Man When I was a much younger man, 4883
332: When Labouring To Break Perhaps one is in prison - 21114
333: Where A dark, shadow grey moth 12149
334: Whisky Girl I like'em ragged round the rim, 994
335: Whispers Suppose and this is just supposing, 16132
336: White China Plates I The moon hummed like a refrigerator, 4696
337: White China Plates II You could have driven 13119
338: Wild Card Clayton brothers at the corral, 10127
339: Wincing You can't go back, 2299
340: Windfall Photos along a soft-centred wall 38125
341: Within Reach There are two images, 30147
342: Woodsy Backwoods Poem I saw Bear 30101
343: Work In Progress Two Chinese fellows approached me in a London suburb. 100113
344: Yellow Hair With that lime green hairnet 13113




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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