Warren Falcon Poems

Take air away and even fire falls - Richard Hugo

Descend and of the curveship lend a myth to god - Hart Crane
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Take air away and even fire falls - Richard Hugo

Descend —and of the curveship lend a myth to god - Hart Crane
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Overture

or Ordure
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for Cy Twombly, Barnett Newman, Frank O'Hara

'I never really separated painting and literature.' - Cy Twombly
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and yet another, for Low, thots onto-crypto-noetic-poetic

'Supreme Fiction' is part of a poem title by Wallace Stevens.
'Lavish Absence' is part of a title of a memoir about Edmond Jabès.
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Between the rain Scarlotti Stabat Mater and Coltrane, two wildly different stratospheres, I veer once again to the espresso pot, cast lots for what remains of sacred dregs, boil an egg, talk to the closed curtains voting for outer darkness which agrees with me believing with my ears, in harmony, in Coltrane's primacy of breath and brass, here's a brash Shabbas too-full-in prayer,

pigeon and dove wars going on other side of curtain, their flutings shakuhachi-like pipe in random chorus tandem w my aged but still high fidelics.
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for Andrew Linton

Now I've broken my ties with the world of red dust;
I spend all my time wandering and read all I want.
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Philip Whalen writes:

uh - oh
Now you've
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an asterisk * denotes a footnote beneath the poem

[NOTE - see the note below the poem about powder dancing, what it was, hopefully still is somewhere in rural towns or back streets in jaded cities where merriment and more could thrive without censure or worse]
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'too full of blossom and green light to care'... 'the light breeze moves me to caress' - James Wright

If you were present, I too would
speak of an encounter upon a
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