Ric Carfagna
from Symphony No. 10
Ric Carfagna was born and educated in Boston Massachusetts.
He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently:
Symphonies Nos. 5,& 9 published by White Sky Books-
https://archive.org/details/SymphonyNo.5_175
http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/ric-carfagna/symphony-no-9/paperback/product-21128532.html
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.
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from Symphony No. 10
LXXII
Merely a word
to decipher
the eye
which sees
a (self) portrait
hanging on a corridor wall
which sees
Bosch’s serpentine
tunnel of light
which sees
the black sparrow
sitting atop
the cathedral’s spire
and which sees
a rarefied angelic countenance
retracted through ethereal flames
…
and the night
aglow with gas lit lamps
and the pavement is cold
is hard to the touch
and the air is still and sooty
a distilled mass
entering into lungs
into blood
and into veins
…
and it is here
a word is heard
a word to conjure
the spectral phantoms
from nullities of sleep
a word to utter
the indecipherable rune
which speaks
of the autumn leaf’s decay
and its passage into death
a word which speaks
of this bloodless sentience
infusing mortar and stone
and Blake’s grain of sand
holding more than the universe
can contain
and a word which speaks
of this arcane essence
present in each expended breath
and of a wind
unseen at daybreak
echoing down corridors and halls
and entering into
the heart’s cavernous void
Ric Carfagna was born and educated in Boston Massachusetts.
He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently:
Symphonies Nos. 5,& 9 published by White Sky Books-
https://archive.org/details/SymphonyNo.5_175
http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/ric-carfagna/symphony-no-9/paperback/product-21128532.html
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.
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