poems || Felino A. Soriano

from Quintet Dialogues: translating introspection

Of drums

˟4˟

calligraphic crows

            carv

                        ing

curtains from/within verbatim angles left

                                                hanging forward                     onto a hopeful hour of

mnemonic strands of prior

 motive

these

                                    languages of dangle swing in their fraying numbers

aging or so

succeeding

within dimensions of the caws

calling into fractal interpretations

˟5˟

explanation of sight

logic-ness lunges

leaving among landing

the irony upholds contextual

arrangements

mirroring an echo of origami

clarity, hugging the disappeared

shoulder of a moment’s intuitive

inevitable absence

˟6˟

i found a waving figurine                   silent

                                                amid

                        an armoire of sedentary sounds                      its

vocal movement moved into an hourglass’

foundational premise:

                        informing—

an after

                                    shadow-tracing trigger, alerting

                                                            of the angled circulatory notions of

range and rearranging symmetry

dedicatory

determining

fractions of the understanding

still realizes

movement as the eyes’ cultural fixation at/on

imperative observances in the spectrum of

immanence

˟7˟

of the eyelids’ opening

            their hands

engage

                        articulate

                                                            surround

                                    in the eventuality of

plural

                                                                                    their focal finds fixate

collocate varied (in the hope of unmarred) interpretations

renewing or now knowing

                                                                        space               subsequent

                                                                        outer-skeletal               ignitions

connote                                   improvised                  blurs beyond a/the

awakened diameter of morning’s

personal

            insinuation

˟8˟

someone )silhouetted

                 silvered

                  aligned

                                                            between the walled circumferences of troubled

                                    anamneses(

renamed