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    Falling Leaves Observation: Book Ii: Macrocosm Autumn
    Falling Leaves Observation: Book Ii: Macrocosm Autumn
    Falling Leaves Observation: Book Ii: Macrocosm Autumn
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    Falling Leaves Observation: Book Ii: Macrocosm Autumn

    By Casey Carter

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    Originally written (1999) as a counterpoint to Book I: Aflame (1998), Falling Leaves Observation explores autumn landscapes of death, harvest, renewal, rebirth, and the human condition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMay 25, 2017
    ISBN9781543419634
    Falling Leaves Observation: Book Ii: Macrocosm Autumn

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      Falling Leaves Observation - Casey Carter

      Copyright © 2017 by Casey Carter.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2017906748

      ISBN:                  Hardcover                      978-1-5434-1965-8

                                  Softcover                        978-1-5434-1964-1

                                  eBook                             978-1-5434-1963-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 05/25/2017

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      Contents

      Feeling

      Drifting

      Night Piano

      Brother Evolution

      Light the Fuse

      Tasting the Fruit

      Backdraft

      Nest of Rest

      Blinking, Staring

      Whispering Waters

      Course

      Lemmings

      Lost and Found

      Life’s Romance

      So Full

      One of My Clouds

      Immutable Fortune

      Crisp Openness

      Surroundings

      Philistine Dilletante

      Heroes and Crosses

      Nietzsche’s Little Ditty

      Laughing Now

      Implode In Space

      Sigh Blink

      Apples of Now

      A A

      Child’s Hymn

      Hang! Ha! Ha!

      Sandbar

      Prescient Dreams

      Solar Glasses

      The Bird of Happiness

      Purge

      The Piper

      Metaphysics?

      Exile Abetting Memories

      Autumn Leaves

      Soliloquy 5

      Hollywood

      Metropolis

      Let Your Hair Down

      Heartache Anew

      Memory Plea

      Specification

      The Old Ballgame

      Inferiorities Eulogy

      Downtown Athens

      Soliloquy 10

      A Sound Bet

      Pulse

      Rutherford

      Sojourn

      Mother’s Motto-

      Hurling

      Soliloquy 15

      Sigh Blink Twice

      Meltwater

      Georgetown S.C.

      Holy Paradox

      Sycophant Desire

      Chrysalis

      Philosophy

      Dream #1789

      Soliloquy 20

      Popularity Wave

      A Prayer of a Dream

      Blue Shadow Blues

      A Song of a Citizen

      Falling Leaves Observation

      Getting Back

      Books By Casey Carter

      Currents

      Woods By Day Bars By Night

      Aflame: Book I

      Raw Heart Honey

      Arcane Change (forthcoming)

      Homeless Spaceboy (forthcoming)

      Green Satyr Wood Shrooms (forthcoming)

      Feeling

      When you feel all you feel, until you feel so alone

      When you feel no one feels

      Those feelings that feel you apart

      Feeling that way is a gift and a curse

      Yet feeling that way is the way you see

      When you feel no one feels the way you feel

      You can feel someone feeling that way is me

      Drifting

      Thought it was day

      but it was night

      Couldn’t tell how deep into space

      I had drifted

      The chord had slipped

      Thought I had a grip

      Backwards and forward

      became the same thing-

      Were my eyes squinting

      from staring into the approaching sun

      Or adjusting to fragments

      Of receding

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