Three poems by Felino Soriano

Three poems
by Felino Soriano


Approbations 13
—after Robert Glasper’s Tribute

Hands              such hands

        hold and divide (say, portions of sustained

                                            tongue-treasures

                                                        held

against heart of sons’ mastery of want

                    needing           such needing

dashing connecting tissue into

newborn realm, together, vibrant)



provide and scold

                                and mother

rhymes wish with

metaphor for need

becoming cotton warmth

                    once dedicated wrap

hands               such hands now

provoke

                    calming finish of life’s layered

devotion. 

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Approbations 14

—after Nicholas Payton’s A Touch of Silver

Slivers sketched, sanctified

hold on the skin of her skeletal hand



a once-before (historic hurricane) white-hoary shadow             

enriching love’s panic, content, documented

        purpose.



The white stain of porcelain’s rigid hug

once     held silver’s contoured, cornering words:                   I do,



ditto. 

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Approbations 15
—after Tom Harrell’s A Child’s Dream

Awakened

prior to the watchful style of sun’s

organic mount



                    young child

sealed into encircling fear, riot of farewells

        voted terror-sporadic notion

psychology of sound marinates within

candle’s vertical burn.  He



envisions an external body, his, one of

coastal elongation, constructing castles

from the blond strands of sand’s fallen fur.



Devotion

to the sleeping purity bringing body into light

unorthodox speed of sifted designation.



Awake inside mentoring sleep, he

sees waves becoming mother

entering into purple shadow

drawing dawn against wall’s

aggregated muscles, strongly

holding worded echoes

stir       stir       stir.

Author bio:

Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974, California), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 20 collections of poetry, including “Altered Aesthetics” (ungovernable press, 2009), and “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Full of Crow, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Heavy Bear, and elsewhere. He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. He is also a contributing editor for Sugar Mule, www.sugarmule.com, and consulting editor for Post: A Journal of Thought and Feeling, www.postjournalofthoughtandfeeling.com. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: Felino Soriano.