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Brian M. Ross

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Thomas Mann, Dorothy Parker, Joseph Campbell, Douglas Adams

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I studied literature in my early twenties, where my short story *The Pleiades* received an Honorable Mention in the Gainesville College Writing Contest in 1994. Although my creative work later expanded into photography, design, and film, poetry remained the place where many of my earliest questions about meaning first began to take shape.

*Names of the Kingdom* explores themes of identity, myth, nature, and the search for meaning in a world where traditional certainties are constantly shifting.

Many of the poems began decades ago in notebooks written during my youth, capturing moments of spiritual curiosity, existential doubt, and quiet revelation. Years later, I returned to those early works, refining them into a collection that traces a lon
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“Poetry serves one
as a shaman’s drum
or a church choir—

preparing the soul
for its quiet, luxurious feast.”
Brian M. Ross, Names of the Kingdom

“Curiosity killed the cat.
And the scavengers come out to feast.”
Brian M. Ross, Names of the Kingdom

“Pictures fall like meteors,
streak across sky-blue thoughts.”
Brian M. Ross, Names of the Kingdom

“He arose from the loblollies
to follow the estuaries of his mind.”
Brian M. Ross, Names of the Kingdom

“Poetry serves one
as a shaman’s drum
or a church choir—

preparing the soul
for its quiet, luxurious feast.”
Brian M. Ross, Names of the Kingdom

“Curiosity killed the cat.
And the scavengers come out to feast.”
Brian M. Ross, Names of the Kingdom

“My brain flops over the desk and oozes into the keyboard.

Grey and white matter seep between the keys, leaving behind a sticky residue.”
Brian M. Ross, Names of the Kingdom

“Pictures fall like meteors,
streak across sky-blue thoughts.”
Brian M. Ross, Names of the Kingdom

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