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Widely travelled, Lewis Brown has lived in Europe, Africa, and on the East and West Coasts of the United States. He has enjoyed multiple careers, including management in retail, managing his own business, and teaching public school. His unique perspective is partly due to his broad education and experience on several continents, and his pleasure in the many amazing aspects of life. He enjoys capturing these moments in poetry.
"Spontaneity and freshness, they are what strike me about Lewis Brown’s poems. Simple themes that are much deeper than they seem at first reading. Lewis draws you into the moment just the way modern poetry calls for. Modern poetry calls for living in the moment, in what I like to term “dingly suchness.” No need for allusions or moving outside the poem itself to grasp its meaning. Just being in the presence of the present. It’s a pleasure experiencing Lewis’s world of poems that reveal the depth of being there. Will Strong – author of Connecting Reflections
TITLE POEM: HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU, WORLD! It’s the time of year When they show Casablanca. Again. I was just returning from a stroll in a frigid world. The last crunches of my boots Were amplified by the concrete stairs. Somehow there was a Sun, A broken egg yolk in a pan of dark sky, And it followed me through the door. “Here’s looking at you, Kid.” I heard the dialog streaming and I thought: Bogart’s poignant goodbye was A memory AND a declaration of love. ‘I loved you then, and I love you now.’ I looked out at the scramble in the afternoon sky, Fried light framed by evergreens.“Here’s looking at You, World.I loved you then, and I love you now."
