Ric Carfagna

from Notes On NonExistence :
 

                        matter (,) being
                a contentious assimilation
 

                I

        much is collaged
        without perceptible errata
        moving the silhouette
        to exterior walls
        eluding
        such fear keeps us
        beyond entrapment
        at least one feels
        the ordinary being
        a self reserved
        decisive colloquy
        entering explanations
        which seem to stave
        off the sanitized
        semeiotics of self
        gratuitous ends
        where gaps are evident
        though immaterial
        without illumination
        to remove
        the surrounding strata
        only serving theoretically
        to solicit scrutinizing change
        to the unquestioned inertia
 

                                        II

                                a visceral objectivity
                                at odds with
                                a solipsistic smoking gun
                                transgressively mired
                                in a negligible cognate
                                one soon interjects
                                to overstep the immaterial
                                boundary eschewing bodily
                                contact with a somatic antipathy
                                echoing back the theoretically
                                unseen manifestations referring
                                to what remains a potentiality
                                for description cutting thru
                                a glossed-over dialogical
                                compossibility honing
                                a catalyst for the maleficent
                                sonorities to mutate within
                                the defiant rhetoric
                                of a transgressive ego
                                resolved to inflict
                                facile damage to the
                                indeterminant  (...)   evolution
 
 

                                           from disrupture

                                        you have received less
                                                in perceiving the instant
                                            as phenomenological
                                                breakdowns
                                                       break   down
                                         the future           &
                                                                   past
                                                    as one moment      :
                                        seeing tassel-scraps of barren trees
                                          to remove                what
                                                portends
                                              a natural occurrence
                                         from the incidence of age    -
                                            and what of . . .
                                                        clouds
                                                unfolding the eye
                                            to the unequivocal      distance
                                                even when our bodies
                                                          appear
                                                    enveloped   . . .
                                         it is always an unreachable purview
                                        distinct from   the immediate
                                                apprehension
                                                        at each juncture
                                         revealing
                                                a ontological realism
                                            within each    (a) terminology
                                                assimilating
                                                        the obliquity
                                                of (terminal) disjunction
 
 

           a pale divestiture

                    I

            the wash of integrity
                settles
                between a condescendent
                        explication       :
                you need not infer a comment . . .
                                                to choose
                to reprimand
                                        to contend
        to understand
                                to rehearse in random chaos
                an opposing collateral
                          distillation of similar antecedents -
          rework this         into a veracity
                 misrepresented
                        as fiction
                vexed
                with quandaried insolence
                                a taut prismatic
                                        altitude refracted
        contemplative
                        imputrescible  process
                                   is a latchkey   loosening
          the tries which blind
                            years after immutable changelings
        sit in judgement
                        to falsifying
                                the complex elementals
              and the means which control
                                the deceptive
                   curvatures
                                of unforeseen subornation -
 

                         II

 a case to enumerate objectives
                   predisposes one to errant convention
                        not likely to rescind
        the culpability
                        which wind raises       to justify
        a natural occurrence
                                predominating
        (an) airy sclerosis
                        of permanent vectorization
                the timbre of confines
                                        distinguishing imbrications
                of voluminous similarities
                                          barred from erasures
          the assurance
                in an ideal
                      held with pithy relevance
                                        to a seeping
                        arrogated integration
                  harmonic plat of hegemonic middleground
                                                 scouring the cumulative
                 interpolations
                                     resisting infallibility
        which knows no ease
                                to quiet the restive
                                                jaunts
                                                    deploying
                        a broadloom alienation
        as cowering cordons
                        hold no prospectives
                                        pretentiously
        breaching the contestable
                                        verisimilitude
 

                        III

    moving in isolatable magnitude
        as a schema which manifests
                        pulsations
                            distorting
                                definitive constellation
        one order to revile
                        and dim below the treeline
        burnt from pallid alignments
                                        jagged plains
                                ascertain
                a ground zeroed
                                against
                     an equaling forensic
               anesthetizing            effacements
                           reattaching
                              the self
                                  with deprecative appeasement
            slimmed to a blur
                                altering
                                              the antithetical
                         line of slighted conclusion
 
 

                from blank spatialities
                                     a non narrative poem

                     the boy is rhetorically thinned
                      while losing the cohesive thread
                         upon a palatable veneer
                                  the untapped potentiality
                        lies   with a ghosted largess
                                        in seminal dispossession
                blundering   under the whim
                                a freighted consolation
                        remains ungainly   without indeterminants
                                to needlessly objectify
                      the mediocrity of  iconoclastic causation -
                         reduced    to the  irreconcilable
                           facts               translating the experiential
                              dissolution
                characteristic  of lesser ephemerals
                                          stabilizing
                                 a repository for the quodition
                                        commodification
                          ensuring the  socially lactating ego
                                  a sacramental bonding   satiated
                         with heuristic possibilities
                                encrusting insightful propaganda
                symbolically  zoned  tidal recalcitrance
                        siting a head loss
                          to  the heavy - weathered   cognizance
                               ostensibly palliating
                    a return   to ground zero  quiddity
                          and needless subrogations
                encumbering   the intuitive sag
                        as diagrammatic   paradigms are
                 weighted against        a quintessence  in tangibility
                        again     extenuations      forego
                                      the minimizing influence ...
                                        to end here ... :
 
 

                              the diplomats have been taken to the atrocity
sites

a background noise
torches for the absent
sufficient to stray
from signs of life
taken
to speak of
all are not
all as one believes
to be
wholly holding
an anchorite insularity
at a tenuous distance
between the absolutes
dissolutions
to encounter
what is of white
among the trees
is not
of purity
laying to rest
this vestige
which seems
to unite
the differences
we speak of much
availing itself
with the vaporous
elucidating foregrounds
we chose not to frequent
nor to speak
of
                                                      again
 
 

                                 from nusquam esse
 

        errant fragment
                to contextualize
         though not framed    within
                                reason   ( : scaling the immediate
                impression is weary
                                       though not sedated
                            to matters of discretion
                              apprehensive  to append
                                         the unfamiliar   curvatures
                                now     lost in threatening glare

                                _______________

                                there is relevance
                        in distinguishing
                the retrograde nature
                             of compensational redress
             in a loss (for) wording
                             the specific    extenuations
                exhume  imperatives
                soon     to inveigh     the institutionalized
                                                pecking order
                       weighted within     noxious fulmination
                terminating      with  maturity
                                      achieving an early harvest . . .

                                _______________

                        timorous flinch
                 at the fine grit      settling
                        into commensurate thot
                aware  that certain depths
               betray a middle distance
                belying the presubstantial
                          shape of mercurial sentience

                                _______________

                        much has been written
                with subsequent belief
                                         diminishing
                        the fortification of integrity
                compromised     humanistic subjective
                   extrapolating mass from interiors
                    capacious       sense of emptiness
                                                possessing
                         the unknowable
                                as  potentialities
                  objectify    a common space           darkened
                                centroid of stabilized mass
                        undermined   enclosures
                                vulnerable to the venerable states
                intended to drive desires
                                        to decay                (:)
                        the sallow grace
                                        of the shallow grave
 
 

                                                 fractus

                                           the ontological axiom
                                must be defined    within
                                        the indeterminant   forms
                                liberating    the ego
                                      from the edacious restraints
                                          of an eristically arrant
                                                unconscious
 

                                such presence persists
                           to preside   upon a surface
                                          unraveling
                             first factualizations
                            nascent as the purer forms
                        of a primordial epistemology
                   emerging

                                                fragments    remain
                                           illusive     constituents
                                                 conforming to the
                                                        misrepresented
                                           reality-factor
                                                unwilling to purge
                                     the irreconcilable  differentials
                                         representing   the present
                                                   as an irreducible quanta
                                     in a quantifiable insolvency
 

                                                                such thot is
                                                                        not
                                                         wrought     without
                                                            a precedence
                                                        to deploy    a
                                                            diacritical rationale
                                                                 dependent
                                                                upon the erratic
                                                    disclosures of tamer
                                                                            torrents
                                                        predicated    from
                                                            within
                                                           the constraining
                                                                rigors
                                            being         integral to a
                                                            veracity
                                        constructing  constants
                                                from the circumspect
                                        evidence         clinging to the
                                                        thin-willed
                                                 walls of a predacious
                                                            obfuscation
 

                        the impermeability
                of an alterant-ego
                egressing
                        thru the sundered veil
                stilled by persistence
                        alone           a potentiality soon
                comes to dwell
                        in a discerning  prescience
                unfolding               manifestations
                        culled from the unseen
                poverty                  disembodied       within
                limitations     further removed
                   from an ebullient flowing
                                phenomenological purity
 

                                                         to exist solely
                                                                            within
                                                                  is to deny
                                                                        reason

                                                without    need defining
                                                                 permanence
                                                        farther
                                                                        from
                                        the cathartic    solemnity

                                            extirpating

                                                            desires
                                                                     noetic
                                                                    privation

 

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