Ars Poetica


Nothing's given 
only the jungle-
as the self is

a head full of broken windows 
the body under quicksands 
& a free mind

thunder of Zeus
as a song in the bones 
& no enlightening

the dust of gunpowder
on the cellar floors
a congress of mixed birds in the attic

on arched Learning
Maxims of grinning death-
graffiti hallelujahs

kicked out of homes
or                                                        exiled
the initiating trouble makers

one at a time 
only
& naked sight

a wedding in a casket 
the new born
comes out of-

the joys of spending 
pure gold
each moment is 


                                                  Vincent Ferrini


July 4th, 1979



Vincent Ferrini is a Gloucester, Mass. poet.