Aught, no. 8 (2002)
Ric Carfagna
lapsing sidereal time
i.
maybe clouds impact us
(more than we know)
alternatively
thinned from ardent confusion
displacing mute corridors
poised between branches
separating wind
stripped of patina
dispassionate
faces in patterned dust
invariably how
we associate
figured light
with symbolic form
(into) that which has come
to be spoken of
imprinting
the surface of waters
(with) a fleeting resonance
remaining
a factual undertow
organically counterpointed
variable adjacencies
(only) intermittently prospected
for excess
crowding the more discreet
pulsations alighting upon
corners of neutral determinants
ii.
or maybe
the raised intaglio
silhouetted
against the brief
interlude
extruded through
a mindless labyrinth
a mired complexity
of background muses
avoiding hazy voices
tracking a noisy treachery
across the ghosted antechamber
plumbed bands
of (the) unchanging substrate
intrusive and mindful
of rooms
inhabited
with the purely ornamental
extrinsic antiquities
grafted to
mechanistic caustic countenance
escaping
the preoccupied
present day
motion
on some wary ecliptic
distorted
parallax
of terrestrial vision
a sargasso sea
...only to decay
in
abstract terminology...
delineations in the midst
of a delimiting depth ...
there
are distinctions
made manifest
and consummate boundaries
partially withdrawn (wisdom
thru the processes
of rigid formulations
somehow a
moment
stolen from turbulence
need only defer intention
onto the more primitive acquisition of thot
later to be applicable
below a surface
contained in shallows
fulminations necessitate
an escapist homology (terminology)
refusing categorization
thus: to name this patterns
the staid assumptions
later to be shelved as an outgrowth
holistically emoting derision
while pl(a)ying the pawn
in lieu of sabotaging
the calculatedly interrogative
credible objectives
bearing the brunt of a palatable tenacity
(filching the pyre with a promeathean savvy)
it is not always clear
which specific intonations
ill the meaning
in the soon to be ravaged
adjuncts
of a disjunctive interiority
semiforensic postmodern
Olson still hunts among stones
without the grainy gravities
of permanence
to facilitate
a contextual transcendency
fogged with the non-corporeal
disclosures
moored to the lored arcanities of telluric
embodiments
historys
hampering discourse (discord)
in ways which fall prey
to the indeterminate will
unknowingly invoking
the sutured semblance of self-
dis integration
: a
dredged palimpstest of chthonic musings :
lower forms to transgress
the human condition
soon
fragments
amid an
unraveling
locality
anachronistically
fording the fissures
which fill with a ghosted teleology
or that which lies within
pellucid poolings of a transmigrative psyche
the projected progeny
thru the cyclical scintillations
stratifying strains
penetrate the enervated remains
a noumenal embodiment
beneath this (...)
stony ground
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