Warren Falcon Poems

once again, for Karthik

Does not it all bear
the familiar arc say
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for Jenkins, Foster, Arnold, Galloway, Wilson, Taylor, Burdette, Orders, so many others 'Wild to be wreckage forever' - James Dickey 1


Dear God of the wildness of poetry, let them mate
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These graceless things, Autumnals most
now, now all einfalle*, footfalls of a life
gathering, guttered, muttering often enough
for a bit of daylight or, sounded tinnily enough,
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Francisco Goya, in old age:

Aun aprendo.
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for Henry's heart, and Jacques Smart

'I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.'
― Leonard Cohen
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....but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

Ok Low of the slow and steady
(enough) , the roughened edges
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'My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.' - Fyodor Dostoevsky


streetlight (lamp
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[NOTE: Asterisks ** denote footnotes to be found at the end of the poem]

for/to Walter Christian Schell,
died October 7,2008,
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sunset early
delights for
early night too
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Once in a sycamore I was glad
all at the top and I sang. - John Berryman from Dream Song One

Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son
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