5 poems || Felino A. Soriano

from Aggregations: the quintet gatherings

after—

            Christian Scott

purple the dusk begins

plunge of divided portend: morning: noon:  /

again the version of night apparitions

collocate with whisper as voice

enables stories into ears of fear-fed

fractals

forming echo solitary revision

warmth the body begs

bends

bridges to engage and

connect through visceral

manifestation

again, ornate

as the braided gnarl

indicating trees’ specialized

temporal exaltation the

rumor of farness subsequent

unwanted delusion of need, need

necessity a touch

after—

            Jackie McLean

thought-constructs awaken

sans replaceable agony of day-motion

volumes

                        frame of distance empties

                illusion

                                       circuitry of minimal interrogation

then

                    malleable silk

                                                                      falls

in the free-configuration      camouflaged                             controlled

upon aerial

instruction of

notion                                       foundation of                            lyrical impression

after—

            Elan Mehler

orange in

the blueness

                                    :

compatible nuances

contagious electronic

                                         sky-striping circuits, of

            angled alphabetic

strong-blur clarity

irony in the developing of syllables’ initial reflectional momentum s

      burn-quick crawls

into skin of moments’ certainty of living       suddenness of lullaby

                        the child reactionary calmness this/these/those

sounds begin then alter perception’s remarkable concept of

time, the time-of

focus on replications’ entity of presence

after—

            Tod Hedrick

flight of the humming

heard are these mirrors

rules in the honor

playing are these melodies

hand a hand-treasure

mimesis of the marbles

rudimentary existence:

strum-rolling accumulations

together in the solo-arching

definitional devotion, conversational

method a time-variation abbreviated

on the simply-contour of next, the arriving, now

after—

            Gaz Hughes

song of the isolated measure

                                                                        meander

                                                            culture

                                                levitation

                        impact the

body explores dissection of its naturalized scenery

                                                                                                untainted—

harmony of the impressionist illusion

spark

separate

sing

soprano from the rubrub                       cricket impulsion

elongated crutch

                                    for the emaciated figurine drifting into

blue

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