3 poems || Felino A. Soriano

Approbations 785
—after Archie Shepp’s Ballad for A Child 
 
Awaken, promise.  Premise
            growth expected, date a calendared renewal
formulating sifting genes, ambulatory answers posing
                        mirages’ pressures of inundated emotion.  Your
now constitutes complimented logic:
 
                                                                        parental
hands hold and release upon age’s correctable forays
                                                                                                silencing
surroundings’ optimistic impacts.  Distance               regains
closure’s anecdotal abundance:
            wrinkled memories alive organic aerial nihilistic grasp
gone by sorted priorly remade lullaby burgeon activation. 
 
 
Approbations 786
—after Milt Jackson’s & John Coltrane’s Bags & Trane  
 
                                    we memorized diligent
alphabetic continuity               note or noted rhythms/ed
            classified hearsay
recorded
                        resemblances wind weaving handmade architecture
                                                                                                                    situational
                                                                        functioning
                                    interpretational
individualizing
            mode-meander sorcery (they recalled, it)
                 trickery functional fata morgana
                                                                                    galvanize
holed into halo benevolent musical veneration
 
 
Approbations 787
—after Sonny Clark’s Cool Struttin’ 
 
                                                            Of angled coordination
                                    gait paced rudimentary
            progress—
up-near
            glassed mirrors
                                                hover-broken dialect
                        bridged stare_self
                                                            stimulated elsewhere
placid compromise-evoke constant
vowel of shaped mouth allegory
climax
            learned inward juxtaposing otherness.  Watchers redeem
faithful intellectual assertion
                                                            assonance regain exiled demeanor upon
                        judging affirmation them
they
            the
                        entire cyclic population.