Warren Falcon Poems

for Brandon - should he want it [? ] could he [? ]

'I'm afraid this supreme consciousness is at least not one we could possess. Inasmuch as it exists, we do not exist. - C. G. Jung, letter to V. Subrahmanya Iyer,1938
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a nod, one of thirteen, for Wallace Stevens -
'a small part of the pantomime' 1
'that I may reduce the monster to myself' 2
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[SEE NOTE about this poem at the bottom of the text]

myself
the intruder, as he was not - Robert Creeley
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for Nightingale, an invocation - you know night sky's steady
tho Milky slow - She goes paying nevery one no mind any but
a penny for yer thots. I'll take the hint. And take some time.
What's left. Ol' Li Po he know, the hoot, coot, gives the State
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for Hank (now interred in Roma)

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself in the end. - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
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'Let us look as how they fling themselves from one pleasure to another: their password is variation. Do they desire something that is always the same? On the contrary, they want something that is never the same. In other words, they desire many different things, and he who wants in these circumstances is

not only innerly dispersed, but also divided.'
—Soren Kierkegaard, from Either/Or
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What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms. - Kobayashi Issa
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for Louis Zukofsky


'O framar of
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Planet UnRequitia Poem # 1 - Prologue

Searching Near Mule Kick Creek For William Faulkner's Grave In Mississippi
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Planet Unrequitia Poem 38

for Richard Hugo
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