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    The Journey Thus Far: Selected Poems 2014-2021
    The Journey Thus Far: Selected Poems 2014-2021
    The Journey Thus Far: Selected Poems 2014-2021
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    The Journey Thus Far: Selected Poems 2014-2021

    By Alan Brown

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    The Journey Thus Far is Mr. Brown's second book and the first of his poetic work. The subject matter varying in time as well as in space reflects his life experience; his education, BA in geography; and his pure imagination. The early work is of recollections and experiences dating back to the 1960s. Even though written at a later date, all the poems in the book are composed between the years 2014 and 2021.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewman Springs Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateJan 26, 2023
    ISBN9781684981502
    The Journey Thus Far: Selected Poems 2014-2021
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    Alan Brown

    Alan Brown is a freelance artist who started out as a storyboard artist for a London agency before going back to his roots in the North East to pursue a career in graphic design. As much as he loved working in design for large blue chip clients, Alan’s love has always been illustration. Alan has be fortunate to work on a variety of jobs including Ben 10 Omniverse graphic novels for Viz Media, as well as children’s book illustrations for the likes of HarperCollins and Watts. He has a keen interest in the comic book world and is at home working on bold graphic pieces and strip work. Alan works from an attic studio along with his trusty side kick, Ollie the miniature schnauzer (miniature in size, giant in personality and appetite), and his two sons Wilf and Teddy.

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      The Journey Thus Far - Alan Brown

      The Journey Thus Far

      Selected Poems

      2014–2021

      ALAN BROWN

      Copyright © 2022 Alan Brown

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

      NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

      320 Broad Street

      Red Bank, NJ 07701

      First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2022

      ISBN 978-1-68498-149-6 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-68498-150-2 (Digital)

      Printed in the United States of America

      For May Murai Brown whose generosity made this possible

      Contents

      Self-Assessment

      Part I: Early Poems 2014–2017

      The North Coast

      Simple Stream

      Lake at the End of the World

      Glacial Till, Esker, and Moraine

      Late Fall Day

      Just Right Poem

      Big Sur

      Pate Valley

      Night Life

      Curriculum Vitae

      Quiet Musings

      Somewhere Near Esalen

      Pilgrimage

      Hot Plate Hotels

      City Lights

      Back in the City

      On Being a Poor Poet

      Hotel Deluxe

      Bus Station

      Portland

      France (2017)

      It

      Bisous

      Chill Day in Paris

      The Invisible Man

      Of Baking Bread and Cinnamon

      Are We There Yet

      The Invitation

      Les Jardins des Mortes

      Autumn in Paris

      Winter

      Dog Owners of Tangier

      Changing Seasons

      Part II: Poems 2018–2019

      Bakersfield

      Do Writers Drink

      Cat Named Arman

      Old Tursolini

      Player Plano

      Mu

      Matterhorn Peak

      Winter

      Smelling of Snow

      Pas de Deux

      Fog

      Clouds

      Light

      The Ginger Farmer or Why I Write

      Scenes From a Dark Armchair

      Revolutions of 1848

      A Little Thing I Like to Call Night Train and Bum Wine

      Through the Dream Wall

      Millennium

      Travel Time

      The Passage

      Old Home Cordilleras

      Surfing

      Locomotive Trochanter

      Playing Doctor

      Gerry Mulligan (Night Lights)

      Analog Man

      Part III: Poems 2020–2021

      Slow-Motion Tricycle

      By the Light of Dawn

      Saturnalia of Milan

      Blackened Grosses

      In a Darkened Café

      Lady of the Dark Hours

      Puliklah

      X-ray Specs

      Ashoka Farewell #1 and #2

      Our Daily Bread

      Southern Gothic

      The Gates of Amduat

      Blessed Are the Meek

      The Dangerous Road

      Birds Last Flight

      Love Pussy

      First Verse

      Cut Up-Crack Up

      Time Passes

      Keeps

      For You to Decide

      The Poet

      Border City

      Burma Shave

      In Some Other Lifetime

      Tanka

      Flop on Main Street

      Buk

      Landscapes

      How I Love

      Unfinished and Haiku

      A Young Indian Woman

      One Day

      The Lost Poet

      Le Petit Mort

      The Past

      He Just Died

      Waking to Nightmare

      Lines Sans Lines

      Some Nights

      Déjà vu

      The Lock of Karma

      The Sea of Cythera

      Typewriter

      Self-Assessment

      So hell, I sez to myself; spent time on the road, up, down, back and forth, the length and breadth of California; hiked miles upon miles in the range of light; been to the Isles of Sandwich; and visited Japan and Korea, where I discovered the dharma. Became a bum and went to France and still considered myself to be poorly travelled. Read lots and lots of books and still feel as though I’m poorly read. Did stoop labor ’long side migrant Mexican workers, band packing strawberries in Watsonville and daffodils for .14 a bunch in the frozen fields of Arcata Bottoms, worked in a lumber mill alongside crackers from Arkansas, self-proclaimed mill oakies and proud of the fact, and with Hupas straight offa the res. Somewhere along the line, I even managed to finish college and spend a few semesters in grad school. Been unemployed at various times and places, mostly by choice, and underemployed most of the rest. Neither proud nor ashamed of the fact. Like what a high school teacher told me long ago that if I did not change my ways and apply myself (that was the term that they used), and he was right. I did end up working for people not as intelligent as myself but far more ambitious. Oh, well. Never made much more than twenty-five thousand any one year and was never accused of being a go-getter or an overachiever. Got a book in print, a couple more in the incubator, and a whole slew of poetry and short stories and essays. Women and small animals seem to like me well enough, and I get along with most though I have trouble abiding the willfully ignorant and bigots of any stripe. Worlds gotten too small and crowded an’ life too short for that kind of shit.

      PART I

      Early Poems 2014–2017

      The North Coast

      The north coast

      called by some the lost coast

      Where Cape Mendocino thrusts its craggy eminences

      into the chill waters of the North Pacific Sea

      Long a beacon for mariners

      since the days of the Manila galleons

      laden with plunder

      bound for the coffers of Isabella

      Graveyard of ships that felt its’ rocks in the gloaming

      or foggy day

      or blown by storms

      Their wooden bones littering the bottom

      along with the souls of those who sailed them

      The ocean surrounding open to every kind of maelstrom

      and tempest conjured in the realm of the sea

      Home to many large and hungry things

      that swim in the dim-dark waters

      What lies below

      gold or the restless spirits of the drowned

      And what lurks in the fastness of the surrounding heights

      of the Kings Range and surrounding drainages

      Thrust from the sea by tectonic cataclysms

      eons ago

      There on that long unbroken beach north of Shelter Cove

      what of the semisecret, semi-mysto surf spot

      nestled in the lee of the cape

      where the winds blow offshore

      and waves break beneath towering cliffs

      amid broken headlands of jagged rocks

      where sea otters lounge in the offshore kelp

      a

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