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Title: Mascara-Viscera

Author: Paul Cameron Brown

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

Language: English

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MASCARA-VISCERA By

Paul Cameron Brown

CONTENTS

Flashpoint
Marzipan
Santo Domingo
White China Plates I
White China Plates II
Mail Drop
Headdress
Airbrush
Swords and Roses
Moonrock
Smokestack
Tickings of a Clock
Flashpoint
Equinox
Penny Wise, Pound Poor
Metaphor
Embers
Skin
Asgard
Old Brompton Road
Street Scene
Curse of The Downtown Trade
In My Books
Made in Space
Godiva
Pelee
Pelee: May 8, 1902
Electra
Sideway Look
Lolita Gardens
Unpaginated
Sequin
Yellow Hair
Piltdown Man
Spanked
The Crowkeeper
Cuando-Cubango
Onomatopoeia
At the Red Throat
Shamrock
Lost Patrol
Blackamoor
Up from the Floor
Men of Shade
Knight-Errant
Water Fast (The Pearl Fishers)
Tales of a Brave Ulysses
Inside Seam
Debriefing
Naiad Trance
Pyromania
Tide Charts
Village Idiot
Clippership
Flood
Kipper, Tea and Oranges
Tank-top
Viewer Mail
Seagulls
Imagistic
Living Room
High Roller
The Garden
Canvassing

"The voyage of the best ship
is a zigzag line of
a hundred tacks".
Emerson

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 barque