The Aroma of Thawing: Poems on Grief and Recovery by SR Inciardi

By SR Inciardi

Loss can create deep wounds in heart and soul. and can be very difficult to face without the help of a caring partner, close friends, and/or family. Sometimes these too are not enough. Nature has a way of caring for what is injured in ways that are unimaginable. And sometimes careful words and uplifting thoughts shared within p

• Language: English
• Publisher: SR Inciardi
• Release date: Jun 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798988154310

SR Inciardi

SR (Salvatore Richard) Inciardi was born in New York City and attended Brooklyn College and New York University. While at Brooklyn College, he was influenced by David Lehman and John Ashbery, both professors at the College at that time. Over the years, he's been more heavily influenced by WH Auden, Billy Collins, WS Merwin, and Louise Gluck among others. He's been married since 1978 and has two married adult children and three grandchildren at this time. Coloring Outside the Edges is a broad collection of SR Inciardi's poetry. This is his first full collection of poems in print.

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For my son, Rick,

in memory

1985 – 2022

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I

Unanswerable

Soon To Be Lost

Uncertainty’s Certainty

Reflections

Cruel Days

II

Without Knowing

Afternotes

Icehouse

Purposes

The Aroma of Time

Contrition

The Aroma of Adversity

By Dark

Hollow Sounds

Darkness and Silence

Mourning Caves

The Aroma of Winter

Waiting

Sailing

Evolvere

Dreamers

Contentment

Voices of the Day

Burden’s Blessings

Faces of Days

The Choice

III

Forever Wood

Winter Endure

The Aroma of a New Butterfly

Nurture

Unlike Another

At Night Listening

Echoes Through Time

Days Like Balloons

Remembering Laughter

Starlight

Sometimes

Past Days

Can’t Say, Can’t Know

A Made Bed

Among Notes at Home

Traces

IV

Morning Clouds

Spring’s Aromas

And Now

Changing Seasons

Wind Chimes

The Sun’s Promise

Time March

Rain at Night

Color

Strands

Extremes

Rain Passing

Subtleties

Things in Motion

Agonous

The Aroma of Moonlight’s Footsteps

Time’s Aroma

And This

Picture Window

The Voices of Birds

The Aroma of Morning

Sunlight at Day’s End

The Aroma of Thawing

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SR Inciardi

The Aroma of Thawing

The Aroma of Thawing is a collection of SR Inciardi’s poetry focused on difficult experience of losing a beloved son, married with two young children, and how a tragic situation (or any situation involving loss, remorse, regret, or betrayal) might be overcome with the help of friends, family, and the natural world.

When we emerge from winter, there is eventually a thawing permitting things to fade away and then remade, enabling robust life to resurface. When the winter finally yields to spring, there is a certain aroma in the air, the thawing water decomposes the leaves and all kinds of organic matter to produce a distinct aroma—evidence of life’s resurgence—saying clearly that a change is in the air and, in the end, things will get better even while they can never be the same.

This is his second full collection of poetry.

Enjoy them.

I

Unanswerable

I am angry with you. You were the one

who could have changed it

before it went too far

and when I asked for an answer, was it sacrilege

to expect some sign my pleas were heard,

those made breathlessly in the nights

and through the early mornings,

in the trauma of a time

through my wringing hands and straining voice

calling out to you for help,

oh, please help!

pleading on my knees to protect

a thirty-seven year old’s threatened legacies,

in my helplessness crying out

in the deepest darkness under starless skies,

the glowing moon painting the trees

in its palest yellows in stilled air,

my helpless and repeated pleas

throughout those few November nights

without a response,

without the slightest sound.

Soon To Be Lost

Nothing lasts, nothing

can be looked back on

even in light we think stays unchanged

since it too does