postmodern pastoral (detrital ... 
Richard Carfagna

                    I

     a world

        open   to speculation ...

     we hunt   for a talisman

		           amid the ruins

         or 	     maybe the immutable

                       I-beam

	     once a symbol of permanence

inside this       atomistic probity

          there is no archetypal  reality

	     to construct     or a unity

		   which can remain

	         unbroken -


 as if to ruminate  on verities

           reduced     by the absonant

	   flow of  irrational ideologies

    as each individual

        may ascertain fulfillment

	   yet only where abstuse leavings

			   linger     

           as incoherences     reflecting

  erections of an inebriated conscience

			present
 
	     amid these constellated crowds

	      the ambling faces       urging

	          its unacknowledged presence

		  to elutriate

			the  apathetic countenance -

                         II

knowledge is no threat

       to ideology's        progress
			
               as long as it remains

	   a transparent tool

		    to initiate  a faith

	      which inflates the ego

			     as in each outcome
 
		      the answer lay

			      unresolvable

       as there is no   absolute

	    structure	        for silence

				 to know

			       no wounds

			   words do not instill

	     or to wake   the faces

		  where fiction lives

			upon  each page

			the facile imprimaturs

			   as autonomous

				as our hearts are

			 impervious 

		   to  the unchanging