poetry || Felino A. Soriano

from Quintet Dialogues: translating introspection

Of trumpet

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twice since

moments executed time as

range of human interaction

redeeming containing faith and the

darkened hall each relative affirmation must

escape and sustain to and end of vocal expiration—

sustenance arrives in the rather of momentum sans

gregarious morning into wave of noon’s royal welcome

and

these figments crawl the ledge of interaction’s

modality, coloring into etch an

oval circumference eventual in the balance of day’s

suspended judgment

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claiming contrast, uneasy;

the wayward weave of an hour’s

sustain

cannot recall as with memory

the correct prose of a memoir’s

most accurate representation;

then, by the body the eye

relieves with rest, ostracized

autonomy leading the hand to

evoke and compress compassion

meant to dissolve in the water of a moment’s

evaporated grimace

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coping causational calamity,

curious the notion this weary

introspection handles severity of weight

often-well then well-enough if energy

subsides into the reverse section of

stone’s underbody, sang-froid

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these inaugurations of senses

some of the often seen bouquet of presented optimism—

vertical articulation, night as night-clothed transparency

burgeoned through the touch-fingering of pluralized

pulsations

                        themes and their singing songs

believing an overcoming structure of strength, possible

language re-knowing in the togetherness of seen

experiential collections  

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reveal, hiders

            |hidden| insightful vernacular

cannot be tasted within the guidance of unseen though

                        spectacular echoes