Selections from "Symphony No. 12"
(formation of the labyrinth)
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A wind
over the graves
emissaries
of the intangible
spirit
in a corner garden
where someone
has planted orchids
a spray of roses and dahlias
and marsh grass near the edge
of an ocean’s shore…
and it is not improbable
that this is
not observed
that this exists
as another world
of quantum engines
droning deep
beneath a terrestrial rind
of steel structures embedded
in the intermittently pulsing
blood through iron and stone
through doors that are locked
to the sleeping eye’s embrace
to the crest and trough
of a wave
in the median stretch
between nadir and zenith
a presence
that eludes detection
estrangement and death
in a consciousness of loss
across ontological hemispheres
Ric Carfagna was born and educated in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Integral Series published by Alien Buddha Press. His poetry has evolved from the early radical experiments of his first two books, Confluential Trajectories and Porchcat Nadir, to the unsettling existential mosaics of his multi-book project Notes On NonExistence. Ric lives in rural Central Massachusetts with his wife, cellist Mary Carfagna and daughters, Emilia and Aria.
