Peter Ciccariello
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A place for everything
Seeing your life in pictures
So frighteningly historical
With a clear beginning and end
And filled with necessary blindness
The landscape of your manufacture
Generating a fainter definition
One of courage sprayed with remorse
In sync, now, with the rain falling on this
pale street
The damp gray of the photographs
leaving
Holographic stains on my memory
And faint rectangles on the kitchen table
After you left that night
I put the photographs away
Not knowing it was your last meal
Scattered across the living room
I remember how you liked to put the
dishes away
Put away put away put away
There was a place for everything in your
life
Almost everything
Still, as the faintest of rectangles
Disappear imperceptibly in your absence
There is no place for this
As with everything now in your
evaporating life
There is no place for this
The Ferryman
in the riverthread of memory
the boatman's oar dips
leaving rivulets in the mirrored sheer
of the great oak hull
you must know your own waterline
casting off in your shell like this
crossing is a silent violation
passing the wildly dancing willows
the soft mounds of bracken
from here to there again
your life is almost over
the oar dips again
still no closer to shore
Ashford Boundaries
stone walls lines re[mark]able
missing half the wall now
at night dispossessed leaning
now on an empty space
that carefully placed fulcrum
over two hundred years ago
now draped on another's
self-conscious landscape
through a fogged wreath
outside of time inside this space
marked by a gentle sag and turn
upon oneself
under the curling crown
of an ash red oak
what's left of these inner voices
with a language built in stone
"That's the old road to Providence"
they moved it
would have taken the road itself
but this kind of history has teeth
and will not change
for this Boorish clamor
Seeing your life in pictures
So frighteningly historical
With a clear beginning and end
And filled with necessary blindness
The landscape of your manufacture
Generating a fainter definition
One of courage sprayed with remorse
In sync, now, with the rain falling on this
pale street
The damp gray of the photographs
leaving
Holographic stains on my memory
And faint rectangles on the kitchen table
After you left that night
I put the photographs away
Not knowing it was your last meal
Scattered across the living room
I remember how you liked to put the
dishes away
Put away put away put away
There was a place for everything in your
life
Almost everything
Still, as the faintest of rectangles
Disappear imperceptibly in your absence
There is no place for this
As with everything now in your
evaporating life
There is no place for this
The Ferryman
in the riverthread of memory
the boatman's oar dips
leaving rivulets in the mirrored sheer
of the great oak hull
you must know your own waterline
casting off in your shell like this
crossing is a silent violation
passing the wildly dancing willows
the soft mounds of bracken
from here to there again
your life is almost over
the oar dips again
still no closer to shore
Ashford Boundaries
stone walls lines re[mark]able
missing half the wall now
at night dispossessed leaning
now on an empty space
that carefully placed fulcrum
over two hundred years ago
now draped on another's
self-conscious landscape
through a fogged wreath
outside of time inside this space
marked by a gentle sag and turn
upon oneself
under the curling crown
of an ash red oak
what's left of these inner voices
with a language built in stone
"That's the old road to Providence"
they moved it
would have taken the road itself
but this kind of history has teeth
and will not change
for this Boorish clamor
Peter Ciccariello is an interdisciplinary
artist, poet, and photographer, whose work
involves images that are a synthesis of
language and visual imagery. He has
studied art and design at Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, New York, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, Rhode Island, and at
Parsons School of Design, New York, New
York. He has studied poetry at the Brown
University Learning Community in
Providence, Rhode Island, the Providence
Writing Parlor workshops in Providence,
Rhode Island and with David Ignatow in East
Hampton, New York. He has created a
variety of web-based galleries and is
co-owner of the Internet artist Community
list "The Creative Matrix" supporting digital
and non-digital mixed media art. He was also
a founding member and owner of Internet
artist community List "Lightweavers" a
digital art and collage community. His
current interests are in experimenting with
the fusion of text and images in 3-D
computer graphics environments, and
exploring the possibilities of poetry as
landscape. His recent work can be viewed
at http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
artist, poet, and photographer, whose work
involves images that are a synthesis of
language and visual imagery. He has
studied art and design at Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, New York, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, Rhode Island, and at
Parsons School of Design, New York, New
York. He has studied poetry at the Brown
University Learning Community in
Providence, Rhode Island, the Providence
Writing Parlor workshops in Providence,
Rhode Island and with David Ignatow in East
Hampton, New York. He has created a
variety of web-based galleries and is
co-owner of the Internet artist Community
list "The Creative Matrix" supporting digital
and non-digital mixed media art. He was also
a founding member and owner of Internet
artist community List "Lightweavers" a
digital art and collage community. His
current interests are in experimenting with
the fusion of text and images in 3-D
computer graphics environments, and
exploring the possibilities of poetry as
landscape. His recent work can be viewed
at http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
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