Photo by Pat Brown

Allan Bown was born in Victoria and presently lives in Powell River, BC. His next book of poetry, a partial selected titled Frames of Silence, will be issued by Seraphim Editions in April.

The slightly adjusted quotation
is from poem 20
("The pennycandystore beyond the El") of A Coney Island of the Mind.

Monday's Poem


© Allan Brown

Poem with a Line by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

        A young girl runs
quick & greyly up from the ferry dock,
"Can I borrow a cigaret?"

& her breasts are breathless in
the little rain
               who
might again in somewhere standing
outside, looking in
                   &
she flirts off again
in the silly old rain

                   &
my soft nose still pressed
against the window pane
of life
            looking outside
            looking in