To Don't Be Afraid It's Only Love

By Brian Duran

“to don't be afraid it's only love” is a thought-provoking poetry collection that eschews the traditional mechanics of writing to capture the pace and cadence of modern love. This poetry collection blurs lines between heartbreaking, loving, surreal and always honest experiences of love and other things.
The author weaves hand drawings and an autobiographic yearnings to illustrate a truly personal piece of work. Each poem can stand on it own to be a bizarre abstraction of life or a clarity of self-reflection, all of which melds together into a harmonious enchanting experience for the reader
The reader will find themselves obsessing over what is next, feeling waves of love, and traversing in an imaginative wilderness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Oct 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781480883895

Brian Duran

Brian Duran is a modern American poet who, through refreshing style, explores what it is to be human in our current times. .

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to don’t be afraid it’s only love

poems by Brian Duran

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Copyright © 2019 Brian Duran.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-8390-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-8389-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019916191

Archway Publishing rev. date: 10/16/2019

Contents

Preface

ivy

an upbeat melancholic cluster fuck

feed me sweets

beta

harlem

hippocampus

wither

Chinatown

phobophobia

built to spill

grabbing throats

plucked

we never met

love is cat from hell

trip threes

all good things must start

kitchen

towns

deadbeat

little avalanche

the poll was rigged

anonymous

one night stay only

in the ring

pawn for you to use

out of step

nyc

vanity mirror

fine, great, okay, thank you

eleven seven

mousetrap

dead flower

unus via vicus

how to not fall in love with a lesbian as a straight male & other lessons learned in 2014

switch

art class

last call

downtown

planned parenthood

pseudo-boy

flowers for my brain

Bushwick

the heartless control everything

the drive home is always sweeter

this isn’t Vernona

nyc II

Connecticut

i went to a garden shop

a postcard from Montauk

a misplaced screwdriver

God

that’s a wig, right

the night sweats

this poem sucks

to don’t be afraid it’s only love

repotted

corroded

the director is dead

jazz

rawmantick

clear mountain

Charleston chew

ports

South Carolina

to

frizz

infinite infant

little room

longing

extra extra

felix isn’t dead

gypsy

assembly required

hard liquor & soft comfort

favorite book

take a leak

consequence sequenced

tumblr girls

let’s hear it for love

eternal sunshine

the greatest romance of the worst century

my ex girlfriend’s ex boyfriend’s shirt

feeding the fault line

cancer

my bones are your bones

detach from civil eye station

squirm little worm

how to exercise as an alcoholic

jellyfish

in a 25 cent machine

the ocean

dinner with Patrick Bateman

surrender expectation

U.S.A.

two cents

in the morning and amazing

Louie Louie you’re gonna die

green index finger

click click

talk inside my mouth

absent

smiles

forest fires

plural

north south

thrift me

salt and vinegar chips

kit

bread and butter

strike

it was a Sunday night

four roses

dirty jobs

Shawn

explosions in the sky

Rutherford

the night Frank Sinatra visited the local house

tudor arms

Glossary

For Chelsea, nothing beats.

Preface

That morning my head killed so I crawled into Eric’s bedroom looking for anything to remedy the remedy that