lux aeterna
Richard Carfagna

we channel our realities

	       thru the conscious mind

      seeking to erase

           the errata-auras

       which    entangle us 

        within      these receding peripheries ...



the rhythms 

    of this enduring wreckage

	  bespeak     a latent urgency

	      waning in the arc-light

	   of an incuse apathy

   sorting out our besotted pendentries

		    making new

		the tarnished talisman

			  we wear
 
	          as an armamental remembrance 

			    of the bloodsiege vestiges

			          we choose to forget

		       are part of ourselves

			    devolving as within

		          an entropic ambience

	       which enamors us

		      to stand as one

		           choosing to lose

		                 what little countenance

			     offers us

			      its empyreal repose



this acre of lineage

    we seed with fossilized infirmities

	    culling

		    the gelid revenants

	    of predacious historicities

     casted arid shadows

	 on the flesh	of our gilded gout

	      our refusals to abandon

		     the hovels which house

	an apocalyptic angst

			 an ossifying rationality

		revivifying

 		      an empathetic unknowing

				harbored antipathies

		emanating

			as the first-

				  fruits of ruminated ruins

		  the refuse of an inner reality

					   we refuse to see

			 as the first cause

				   of what is

			   our unresolved ontology