Warren Falcon (04/23/52 - xxxx / Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA)

from Iron Shadows Press Long [Sombras de Hierro Presionan Larga]
by Raul Voz

Das Lied Von Der Erde [El Canto de la Tierra/The Song of the Earth]

[The Song of the Earth by Gustav Mahler,
a song cycle of poems by Chinese poet Li Bai,
famous wandering poet of the Tang Dynasty]

por Selin


I will listen then
as I do now to Mahler

I will out pour this
red wine

half fill
the glass

at the
intrusive mouse hiss

herald of The End
that is in contralto
sung

overwrought
outstrung

I will listen
will recover such
air enough around
to go on sing my
song tio-tangle in
tree limbs Van Gogh
still somewhere paints

knees sore
now and always
a call
to prayer

to woo in
old boots
worn leather

Weak knees
make me to
existence/being
adore

to which I
have only just
in a dream

renewed my wedding vows


*


I am drawn water
from artesian wells
deep

I am a bath with night stars

I am swelling in night-mirage

I am heat vectors from
day-heated earth-making

I am giddier star dance

bathing
on the porch at night
(so the shy mountain
cannot see)

I am rain water
gathered rhythmically
from the tin roof tonal

toks

glocks

in pots all kinds


*


O stand radiant-starred late afternoon

O stained stark shadows black frieze


astonished stooped man

time's wee piss-boy

damp bunk-bed mattress fears


O stand glazed from edges

gaze to bark

vine maps of escape


Iron shadows

impress long into

wet pit


sun shard

spy glass

throat sore


cracked song for dirty boots