Three poems by Felino Soriano

Approbations 609
—after Ben Allison’s Respiration

 
At rest
            much
of the waking moments provide
awakening gatherings of violet                       burnt orange
                        an autumnal avalanche
of glass’
responsories  tissue thin physicality,   this
brand of motional outbursts
            ambulatory heaves of wind’s
breathy mathematics
                                    catches maze of web’s
noon warmth (causational embrace, emphatic)
                                                                                    and thus
believes in the vibratory existence
heaving mood and deliberate evidential series
collaborates as now’s version of elite
understanding. 

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Approbations 610
—after Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Introspection

 
Cleaved to the spiritual
                        mannerisms
                                                predicated psyche architects
 
flexed
            into
versions of the mind’s valiant forms of opened
collocation:
 
                                    alone                            |                                   together
 
with the self’s primal
hankering to understand
                                    portended
shapes of questioning vernacular
                                                holding and
bent
            and
interpreted as whole
                                                            and held
beneath reflection’s guise of
delving into skeletal depth
of the mind’s anecdotal freedom. 

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Approbations 611
—after McCoy Tyner’s Search for Peace

Beneath disparate cultivations
                       
the cold
sword-edge metallic spine of a rock’s
numeric otherness
                                    can then peace remain
though forgotten the body-rock’s needs to
socially associate with human hand
                                                            prior
to the heave of wish-making
fashion
            generating
absence though hope was the curved fathom
relying on return to
                                                open wound of catastrophe’s
ire
            hoping
for heal, such innate
multilayered heal.

Author bio:

Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 32 collections of poetry, including “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009) and “Delineated Functions of Congregated Constructs” (Calliope Nerve Media, 2010). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Unlikely 2.0, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Otoliths, and elsewhere. He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: Felino Soriano.