Warren Falcon

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

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Warren Falcon Poems

Autumn Haiku
Ars Poetica Redux Dying trees easily fall.. Poems, too, as ...
Brittle Goes The Bone for Ocean The animal we ...
The Case For Love As Storm for Crimson Love This can ...
That Salt Adheres for Karthik that salt adheres to the ...
For All The Words Dished Up - ...
Nocturne [from early poems,1970's, youthful attempts at ...

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From the Encampment of HeartStrife - A Sampler Of Poems As An Inner Autobiography

The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower - Hart Crane

take down the walls, invite
the trespass... - William Carlos Williams

Let him not be another's who can be his own.
- Paracelsus

Refugee from the American South.
Now loud-but-reverent-mouthed in
New York City.

Leave the world to the scoundrels!

As I get older, my relationship to ground is problematic. Balance is no longer an assumption that delivers. Is it the room that leans or is it me? My sense of place has never been too pleasantly real or here (but for ... more »

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Dear Low,

You did it. You left the trout behind.

Sunday the corn was cut down. Apple trees
in the nearby orchard were felled which explains
the screams ...
from ' 'Dear Low' - Upon His Leaving Remote Mountains For Manhattan, Circa 1981
Arriving late to love

the broken tower
mourns its ringing ruin.

Long drought of air
stills the clapper.

But one breath, Trembler,
from ' Annunciation- for Cesar Vallejo'
We lay together, two wrecks, Love,
wooden ships conjoined by forces
too great, too objective to blame.
We stretch beside a shoreline,
eels play in the one rib of our ...
from 'Here Come The Wild Birds Again - Poem For Painters & Poets'
This ancient tonguing
betrays some fault
disdaining the human world -

which occurred first,
the birthing or the wounding?

Abjuring flesh of nece...
from 'David To Jonathan, A Lost Psalm Recovered, Recent Translation, Circa 1978'
''and O this,
this midnight stagger,
nothing hurt but trembling
hand shaking to dryness,
the other leaning into yellow''
from 'Sleep Walk'