Felino A. Soriano


from Oscillating Echoes

58

on the ground a ground of mirrors
rotating—

no one eloped to gather absence

—my devotion to a presence, ongoing
rose into a hovering aspect of
gaining knowledge, abrupt
antiphonies—

curtailed language
could not detail interrogated mayhem

among each reflection of supposed minutes
wearing sleeves of incense
to expose scent

as the figurine notion of senses’
specific devotion





59

     your



                                   voice
                  sits                                                               /patient alphabet\
|against                    

                                                                     the neck|

a habit of isolation     (_________), and my

agreement with

solace 
                        exposes specific 
markings

from
                                                                              the throat’s back

a

harvest of promises, stuck,                    altered,

insipid 





60

warm air
splayed into wide arc,
peripheral coverage, elongated
arm embrace around
summer’s facial arrangement of
language’s versatile
privilege 

             something angular
distrusts the common
left-margin prose of several hours’
alabaster considerations 





68

to reconsider to
reinterpret song and meaning of
each chorus'

endeavor of clarifying 
what hearing complicates





70

lost among fractals' blur of mentioning reason
. . . designed to require notation

to provide clues of potential whereabouts      pulses

wandering from the body and wholeness

of refuge, abrupt

or the slow unfasten, an aiming, an articulate reward, found





72

solitary function this
notion of shadow hierarchy: gauge/size          symbol/intuition

follows scale of the original dimensioncubed

associates with other flattened disparateness, of fables
following lead of a hopeful and subsequent 
end to the prose and corporeal fascination





73

green 
        an evaporated miracle
        shapes
shifting (mirror the shoes of a runner’s ongoing function)

a brand of sedentary
mirage

broken                    into                       freedom

yet
     fract
-ioned 

within the cellular nuance of      unknown 
predication 





74

gradual lean, the shape of tomorrow’s appearance . . .

between the notion and corner of
varied streets and perspectives

each person hears and hallucinates . . .

tomorrow is a burgeon of 

abstract becoming





75

by it






                                            -self 

desert, an alone
continuance of khaki                     tamed
in wrinkled angular
light
              in
the hope a solitary growth

joins the arid participation of season and

range of moments’ deliberate functional

abstraction 

Felino A. Soriano is a poet documenting coöccurrences. His poetic language stems from exterior motivation of jazz music and the belief in language’s unconstrained devotion to broaden understanding. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. Recent poetry collections include Forms, migrating, Of isolated limning, Mathematics, Espials, watching what invents perception, and Of these voices. He edits the online journal, Of/with: journal of immanent renditions. He lives in California with his wife and family and is a director of supported living and independent living programs providing supports to adults with developmental disabilities. Visit felinoasoriano.info for more information.
 
 
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