Warren Falcon Poems

the subject matter is not new
& not the sorrow
old as the first cave
bearing first fire in
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idling spiders,
fiddling legs,

when do they sleep?
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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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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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