a section from Symphony No. 2 || Ric Carfagna

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Speak now of the sea

of fluid gods

coiled in mortal hemispheres

of worm ghosts’ burrowing

vertiginous fissures

shredded cerebral dust scars

leavings

on littering wind

on sun scorched strand

here a philosopher

structuring modernity

on the plains of St. Augustine

an untamable id

a fleabane meadow

a cutlass severing

the skylark’s wing

a rat embedded in spider silk

delicate ash glass chrysalis

blowing in alchemical breeze

blind sage on plaintive vessel

burning on iron seas

now a peasant dreams

of wingless crows

mourning the skyline ruins