{"id":655,"date":"2024-02-03T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=product&#038;p=655"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:58:41","slug":"lost-among-the-hours","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/product\/lost-among-the-hours","title":{"rendered":"Lost Among the Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by\u00a0Alan Britt<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<style>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#tab_container_654 {\r\n\toverflow:hidden;\r\n\tdisplay:block;\r\n\twidth:100%;\r\n\tborder:0px solid #ddd;\r\n\tmargin-bottom:30px;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n#tab_container_654 .tab-content{\r\n\tpadding:20px;\r\n\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n\tmargin-top: 0px;\r\n\tbackground-color:#fffbe5 !important;\r\n\tcolor: #000000 !important;\r\n\tfont-size:16px !important;\r\n\tfont-family: Open Sans !important;\r\n\t\r\n\t\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n\t}\r\n#tab_container_654 .wpsm_nav-tabs {\r\n    border-bottom: 0px solid #ddd;\r\n}\r\n#tab_container_654 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a, #tab_container_654 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a:hover, #tab_container_654 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a:focus {\r\n\tcolor: #000000 !important;\r\n\tcursor: default;\r\n\tbackground-color: #fffbe5 !important;\r\n\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n}\r\n\r\n#tab_container_654 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li > a {\r\n    margin-right: 0px !important; 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Reading <em>Lost Among the Hours<\/em> (dedicated to none other than Daphne, his prized blond Bouvier), is like negotiating unexpected bends in a densely forested, thought-inked journey. In Britt\u2019s very first poem, \u201cThe Ego,\u201d you stumble upon a philosophic milestone: \u201cThe ego must be misunderstood like any good myth.\u201d And when you have absorbed its essence, you encounter \u201ckhaki nightmares\u201d following which, phantoms of Kabir and Rumi, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Brando, Lorca, Shelley, Byron, Blake, Bacon and Bonnefoy appear, to haunt you delightfully with their palpable presence\u2015allusions evoked by the masterly poet. From his sensuous word paintings and contemplations of life and nature over 13 previously published books, Britt has been as much, preoccupied with the whims of history and politics that shape our lives. In his biting \u201cSense of Humor\u201d and the power of \u201cWritten Words\u201d we witness a deep concern for humanity and the descent of human values. But his spirit is infectious as his \u201cown humble poems\u201d that seek to \u201crescue us all, once again, \/ from the latest, bigoted new world order.\u201d We need to be nourished again and again by Alan Britt\u2019s words.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Bina Sarkar Ellias, Poet and Editor\/Publisher,\u00a0<em>International Gallerie<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-850\" src=\"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alan-Britt-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Britt\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Alan Britt<\/strong> served as judge for the 2013 The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. He read poetry and presented the \u201cModern Trends in U.S. Poetry\u201d at the VII International Writers\u2019 Festival in Val-David, Canada, May 2013. He read poetry for the<em>\u00a06x3 Exhibition<\/em>\u00a0at the Jadite Gallery in Hell\u2019s Kitchen\/Manhattan in December 2014. Also, sponsored by LaRuche Arts Contemporary Consortium (LRACC) he read poetry at the Union City Museum of Art\/William V. Musto Cultural Center in Union City, NJ in May, 2014. His interview at The Library of Congress for\u00a0<em>The Poet and the Poem<\/em>\u00a0aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. A new interview for\u00a0<em>Lake City Lights<\/em> is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/lakecitypoets.com\/AlanBritt.html\">http:\/\/lakecitypoets.com\/AlanBritt.html<\/a>. His latest books are\u00a0<em>Lost Among the Hours<\/em>: 2015, Parabola Dreams (with Silvia Scheibli): 2013 and\u00a0<em>Alone with the Terrible Universe<\/em>: 2011. He teaches English\/Creative Writing at Towson University.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_654_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P><strong>Giant Manuscripts<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nSome poetry manuscripts<BR>\r\nare monster hurricanes<BR>\r\ngripping the entire state<BR>\r\nof Florida,<BR>\r\neerie eyes focused on West Palm,<BR>\r\nStuart and Ft. Pierce.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nIt just so happens<BR>\r\nI dated a girl<BR>\r\nfrom the Port St. Lucie corridor\u2014<BR>\r\ngoldfinches igniting<BR>\r\nquartz blue eyes\u2014<BR>\r\nbut I digress.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThese manuscripts, like elephants<BR>\r\nspraying one another,<BR>\r\ngrow heavier and heavier,<BR>\r\ndown in our basements,<BR>\r\nnight after night.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nSomeday, with proper cultivation,<BR>\r\nthey could resemble<BR>\r\nsperm whales 2 miles deep<BR>\r\ntrolling<BR>\r\ntheir favorite meal,<BR>\r\nthe giant squid,<BR>\r\nthat elusive, mythical creature<BR>\r\nwhose 50-foot tentacles<BR>\r\noccasionally litter<BR>\r\nour shores of dementia.<\/P>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<P><strong>Wild Parakeets of Florida<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n(For Duane Locke)<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nHe parted the wall<BR>\r\nso that we could enter.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nHe melted mortar from the bricks<BR>\r\nsupporting our future superstitions.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nUltimately, this allowed us to enter.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nBut, once inside,<BR>\r\nwe realized that genocide is a disease<BR>\r\nmore rampant than AIDS,<BR>\r\ngenocide ancient as DNA.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nAnd now we\u2019re petitioning<BR>\r\nwhat new stadium, exactly,<BR>\r\nwhich new sports franchise,<BR>\r\nwhile our children<BR>\r\nslumped in overcrowded classrooms<BR>\r\nare herded by underpaid sheepdogs?<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThis can\u2019t be why Blake<BR>\r\nparted the Red Sea.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI\u2019m telling you,<BR>\r\nBlake was an escaped convict<BR>\r\nfrom the 18th Century<BR>\r\nwith nowhere else to go.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nHe reminds me of a poet<BR>\r\nwho once watched pale blue parakeets<BR>\r\nblistering the pine trees<BR>\r\nof St. Petersburg, Florida, 1969.<\/P>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<P><strong>For George<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nGeorge eases his slide<BR>\r\ninto Gary Moore\u2019s<BR>\r\n\u201cThat Kind of Woman.\u201d<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nSneaks in, sans wah wah,<BR>\r\nthree quick licks,<BR>\r\nthen leans back into<BR>\r\na Bonnie Raitt sultry riff.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nBrass on steel suggests<BR>\r\n\u201cApple Scruffs\u201d or \u201cLayla\u201d<BR>\r\nas his Gretsch grinds its<BR>\r\nantlers against the elephant<BR>\r\ntrunk of a thorny acacia.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nHe\u2019s no yearling,<BR>\r\nthis George Harrison,<BR>\r\nthough hairless now<BR>\r\nand staggering<BR>\r\nthrough the gilded halls<BR>\r\nof the Almighty.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nA blue note from George\u2019s guitar<BR>\r\nsparks the nearby stall<BR>\r\nof a nearby barn<BR>\r\nigniting nearby hay.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nSoon the entire barn is ablaze.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n <script>\r\n\t\tjQuery(function () {\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('#myTab_654 a:first').tab('show')\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\tjQuery(function(){\r\n\t\t\tvar b=\"fadeIn\";\r\n\t\t\tvar c;\r\n\t\t\tvar a;\r\n\t\t\td(jQuery(\"#myTab_654 a\"),jQuery(\"#tab-content_654\"));function d(e,f,g){\r\n\t\t\t\te.click(function(i){\r\n\t\t\t\t\ti.preventDefault();\r\n\t\t\t\t\tjQuery(this).tab(\"show\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\tvar h=jQuery(this).data(\"easein\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif(c){c.removeClass(a);}\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif(h){f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+h);a=h;}\r\n\t\t\t\t\telse{if(g){f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+g);a=g;}else{f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+b);a=b;}}c=f.find(\"div.active\");\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\r\n\t\tfunction do_resize(){\r\n\r\n\t\t\tvar width=jQuery( '.tab-content .tab-pane iframe' ).width();\r\n\t\t\tvar height=jQuery( '.tab-content .tab-pane iframe' ).height();\r\n\r\n\t\t\tvar toggleSize = true;\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('iframe').animate({\r\n\t\t\t    width: toggleSize ? 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