Poetry: Adam Levon Brown

Adam Levon Brown

Adam Levon Brown is a published author, poet, amateur photographer, and cat lover. He has had poetry published over 200 times in 11 countries.

He has been published in venues such as Burningword Literary Journal, Harbinger Asylum, The Stray Branch, Poetry Pacific, and Indiana Voice Journal.

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Manic in the Afternoon

Mountains jutting from

ground space 

Pull at the axis

of my disenfranchised

body

Rushes of euphoria

envelop me in arms

of words unspoken

Synapse broken;

brain on overdrive

Lost & Found

I lost my mind again

in the neurotic

self absorption

that seems to

barrage my mind

in waves

I found it

in a bottle of aged

Jack Daniel’s

The amber

infusion of distilled fire

shot through

my system

and left an impression

of dying candles on

a cloudy winter night

Coughing cortisone

through the veil of

catastrophe

Led me to wake from

a good dream about sex

into convulsive vomiting

upon my bedroom floor

I guess that’s what I get

for thinking that I could

outrun the darkened visage

that is life

Fences

Caged within

are the hopes

and dreams of

flesh and blood

Yearning to

be at peace

in a world

that doesn’t

want to acknowledge

their existence

Sweat and tears

bursting through

the cortex that

is life

Self-sufficiency

burdened

at the top of the

hill

Where vision

is lost on gold

and compassion

is lost to greed

rip open the

fences that

keep so many

from shelter

and solace

Let their voices

and dreams be

heard

Visceral Entanglenment

Visceral, triangular

shards of jagged glass

edge along the skin

Miscreant mortality

amalgamates minnows

of Macabre

Pulling from

the reaches of

pristine complacency

and diving into

Jet black

I let blood be

blood and

course through

cathartic rhythms

This is my heart

Optical Illusion

Tainted respite

Of terrified eyes

Wiping away

The granules

Of morbid

Fascination

Preemptive

Strike on

Nerve to pale bone

Misshapen

Mortuaries

Lie mold-ridden

In the macular

Degeneration

Of molecular

Misfiring

Semblance

Of light

Permeates

The reaches Of

 the abyss

That is the

Cornucopia

Of sight

Setu, May 2018