Selections from "Symphony No. 12"
(formation of the labyrinth)
19
October’s well
grows deep
and frigid
from outside this doorway
the fog does not disperse
passing from one
form
to another
“they speak of Plato
of perfection
of corporeal states
of transcendental awareness”
of vertical glass panes
after a rain has fallen
and the wind that cuts
(the flesh)
like a steel edge
…
or the way an afternoon light
can retain its insignificance
after the grey rain
leaves the platform
where landscapes
unearth eccentricities
ghosts of platonic forms
coalescing within
the eye’s domain
as in the parlance
of the unconscious acolytes
whose corrosive soot
lingers in quantum hemispheres
hidden from physical sight
yet perpetuating
a visceral presence
barely perceptible
in these framed environs
of malleable autonomies
fused to airy cognitive
intangibilities
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.
