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    Mascara-Viscera
    Mascara-Viscera
    Mascara-Viscera
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    Mascara-Viscera

    By Paul Cameron Brown

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Mascara-Viscera - Paul Cameron Brown

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      Title: Mascara-Viscera

      Author: Paul Cameron Brown

      Release Date: February 4, 2010 [EBook #31181]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MASCARA-VISCERA ***

      Produced by Sorour Imani.

      MASCARA-VISCERA

      By

      Paul Cameron Brown

      "The voyage of the best ship

      is a zigzag line of

      a hundred tacks".

      Emerson

      CONTENTS

      FLASHPOINT

      1

      The moon has a larder

      and a kitchen,

      wears a nightcap

      as Father in the Night Before Christmas.

      2

      The moon hoards pistachios,

      marzipan

      commands the shadows

      is mustachioed

      sleeps in a sloop

      (at least when I look)

      like the boat

      owl and pussycat

      took to sea.

      3

      And on country nights

      in high summer

      fishing nets seem drawn

      about his face,

      reveal ribbons of light,

      eerie panhandlers grubbing quarters;

      a sinister sailor with a sack

      on a pitch black wharf.

      4

      Between clouds,

      leafy barques

      the hinge reflected on the

      thick, ashen door

      the moon will pirate

      your senses

      set them adrift

      amidst twilight islands

      in the mind's Outer Hebrides

      where mystery is king

      and the hem of robe you kiss

      is an envelope pilfered.

      [9]

      MARZIPAN

      1

      A thick hole in the dark

      from which

      stars pour silver

      as in pails

      their runny divide

      ink-strewn scalps

      torn from the roof of the sky.

      2

      Padded footprints

      giant ferns blooming

      constellation prints,

      the wind an athlete

      pacing about a track

      drying thru fingerprints

      thin, nectarine light.

      3

      Sand down whitest skin

      moving past your hand

      a gown, mauve to green,

      iceberg lettuce,

      the black festering

      across a ribcage;

      while night arranges

      moths to dusting powder

      pucker-lipped

      fronds from afar

      4

      Afar, the word a gypsy

      tangled in the waves,

      foam from a medicine bottle

      agitated and strewn,

      bubbles calculated in gasps

      light into the distance

      forlorn

      tree-frogs, the cricket

      sound round deep

      --movement of night as

      a rumbling in the ground,

      [10]

      SANTO DOMINGO

      In the crypt with

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