Three poems by Felino Soriano

Certainty unwed
 
 
 
Personas erupt                                  counterpunching
                                    positional elongated grandeur
eloping mid-wealth rendition of philosophical
 
                                                                                                corruption.  Said of
                        extrapolated
chaos
                                                                                    complex verbs distinguish hearsay
                                    mere |ly| say|said|
past participatory
tense of vocalizing now’s merited hanker.  Wilted
synonyms
                        architectural validity
balanced asymmetry                 placid reknuckling
                                                                                                            dedicated harboring
western thought
built mores
underlying transgressional passion of the eye’s vocal
dissemination. 

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‘neath surfaced poverty              
 
                   I
 
visualized death’s dimensional
                                                            forays:
 
concrete, cracked, crooked spine: abolition
 
                                                                        wilt of ornamental finger
pointing
                        upon autumn’s allegorical existence
breathing vaporous letters of explanatory diligence, suspended.  Death
                                                                                                                        a
walking window
read by squinching visual ascertaining, collected surfaces
excess warp and denial of breath
evacuated accordance sans descriptive
                                                                                                definition.
 
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chatter
 
 
artificial monotone
            of the
tongue’s afterward revival
                                                            misspeaking actual acceleration
                        voltage hereditary indifference, spoken
                                                                                                            a
—after cyclic dimensional misnomers
                                                                                                spoken
exaggerated narratives              reflectional sessions
heard regarding inaugural meanderings
leading
                        particular interpretations beyond roles of the listening’s
ravenous exhibited silences

Author bio:

Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974) is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. 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 various idioms of jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. For information, including his 43 print and electronic collections of poetry, over 2,700 published poems, interviews, and editorships, please visit his website: www.felinoasoriano.info.

Artist bio:

Paul McMillan is self-taught artist working primarilly in oil. He works in various themes and genres with special concern for surrealism. Occasionally, his work includes original words and music. Paul recognised he was an artist at age 5 and still feels the same at 57, but is more habitual in the pracice of his art in a world that makes less sense daily. His art piece above is titled, "Self Salvation From A Dream of the Fear of my Own Death."