from Espials by Felino Soriano

from Espials

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often                                                    mistakes

cannot                                                 recall

how the                                               ankle

breaks                                                  becoming

fragrance                                             from the

mouth’s                                               vocal

wind                                                    wandering

toward the                                           guidelines of

healing                         ,                       wholly

41

meditative acronyms

in the spelling of nuanced                    understanding

                                                each

                                                                        stare/absorbs-stares

                        wandering, an eye

recalls an institutionalized watching/waiting

spectrum, delving then into formulating tear, its sear, strong, syllabic,

broken

down

            by altering emotional content, the text in isolated versions of spoken embarrassments

not yet

wilted or

by-then written the improvised living becomes cliché

sostenuto

within hands and their lined delineation

yours, theirs, ours, thus

subjective in the carrying of closed-eye

preparedness

42

I cannot recall the number

etched by early-breathing crows (a burn                     a eupnoeic reactionary rhythm)

                                                            their

numeric

            un

-order

                                    speckled speaking, turntable high speed

inventions

thus

now

or when-now     isolates into solitary folds of inward innovation

I lean into a silent shout

my body’s lexicon

shortened by varied pages

and

or now-and                             realization                     burgeons hybrid analogies

one/two or more

than the pluralized invention

entails

            similar

syncing

            within the enclave of crows’ leaving my memory

Author bio: 

Felino A. Soriano’s recent poetry collections include Of these voices (whitesky ebooks, 2013) Pathos|particular invocation (Fowlpox Press, 2013), Extolment in the praising exhalation of jazz (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2013), and the collaborative volume with poet, Heller Levinson and visual artist, Linda Lynch, Hinge Trio (La Alameda Press, 2012).  He publishes the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics and Differentia Press. His work finds foundation in philosophical studies and connection to various idioms of jazz music. He lives in California with his wife and family and is the director of supported living and independent living programs providing supports to adults with developmental disabilities.  For further information, please visit: www.felinoasoriano.info.