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    Point Spread Poems
    Point Spread Poems
    Point Spread Poems
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    Point Spread Poems

    By Paul Cameron Brown

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Point Spread Poems - Paul Cameron Brown

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      Title: Point Spread Poems

      Author: Paul Cameron Brown

      Release Date: March 2, 2010 [EBook #31477]

      Language: English

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      POINT SPREAD POEMS

      BY

      PAUL CAMERON BROWN

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      "In the five and dime

      store where I first fell

      in love with unreality."

      Lawrence Ferrenghetti

      WINDFALL

      Photos along a soft-centred wall

      like assorted chocolates

      with prized centres,

      tiny miniatures--

      full portraits

      the young army major, for one,

      in battle fatigues come full family regalia.

      Mounting the staircase

      (tearing back the chocolate paper)

      shroud hand on the railing,

      pressuring the cherry liquid

      into oozing burst of memory,

      the nectarine orange of a summer's day.

      Swing & garden loom into view,

      the mind plays thoughtscapes,

      a tag ensemble, along the wall.

      Old colours (or lack of them) abound--

      the antiquated dress & hairdos

      of grandparents that speak lavishly,

      into taste buds, across the fallen years.

      Ivy & ivory fan, kitten on a rocker,

      cradled baby that amounts to me,

      the sun coming home to roost on this plaintiff, pleading

      wall.

      Passage of thought

      into this chocolate box--

      the lid off stern memory

      prying forth a directory of

      mouth-watering choice,

      or so the advertisers' claim.

      Yet do we ever thought

      over what we taut (in our heads)

      we are? My dad in Kenya (a time and age

      from this perspective like the peanut brittle)

      or grandfather, about eight, from the dreamy,

      dark cream & nougat reaches of layered black space

      that speaks the aeons ago--

      his manner and distance a smoky haze

      from the twilight special occasion

      Black Magic chocolate box.

      [9]

      TURNCOAT

      Sitting in the spendthrift dark

      lilting pennies away,

      deciphering fate ... .

      The bed, a warm reach past

      the pillow

      like personal mortality in the

      incest breath of life.

      Warm stuff of dreams--

      the calender with its days mesh &

      march like soldiers

      dearly departed

      (cindered and bludgeoned)

      or the old sea-faring chest

      where all men are sailors

      past light's corner.

      Sturdy trudgeons,

      clock bursts thru the room

      mindful of time and aching,

      decaying things.

      Hallow's Eve in movements of the curtains--

      a remembered Rembrandt,

      self-portrait of the old man

      standing alone in a clammy room,

      idling the seconds, with drab

      browns and grays;

      that sea-faring chest, again, speaking

      of depleted journeys.

      Mystic

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