: About Me

Austin Brown was born in Lexington Kentucky in 1976. He is the son of two professors, Walter Brown and Sue Johnson. After serving his community and country as a Paramedic, Teacher and Soldier, he has begun serious work toward his literary career. Mr. Brown has resided in Texas since 1983, and currently lives in the hill country of central Texas where he resides with his ex-wife Jenniffer and his three children.

My passion is ...

car crashes and poetry

I know too much about ...

killing (in the military)

My parents always told me ...

that they understood

My childhood ambition ...

to be a teacher

My favorite memory ...

fishing with Dad

Why I write ...

because I have to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Literature and its Writers, The Bionic Woman, The Eli Young band

My first job ...

Cook at Sonic

My best moment ...

Saving a life

My inspiration ...

Existentialists, Trancendentalists, Alcoholics,Soldiers, Guitar players, Women

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Longing

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I as a Tree The angle of the listing winter sun, Like a slow heavy ship on the horizon, There is the sound of sad violins in this light. My naked branches reach up in deliverance, I am sluggish and sad, The last of my leaves cling by chance In the wind- Soon they will be gone from me, There is no color in me anymore. I feel the withdrawing vein of creation- Slowly pulling out from me, into the cold earth. There is no comfort in this sunlight, Its long gold rays, useless to me as a lost lover. My roots reach deep for warmth, anything. The ground is beginning to freeze and the low sun sinks;...

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