poems || Felino A. Soriano

from Of these spiraled identities

XIX

my interaction with angles

is an attempted reconfiguration of paralleling

alteration, this

removal of accented connectivity connotes

gem with the fingering flame of

interacted characteristics and

the feeling (in the hoping of unfleeing)

appreciated by an object’s objective

notion of realizing position as physiological

infatuation

XXVII

these turns are accolades

                                                                        away

                        from the jejune

unjumping

            stagnant

                                                miracles of an hour’s isolated silence                                      the

rhythm of a typist’s

tools

                                    captures quite

in the dwelling of correctness

the

necessary ultimatum

self of the varied autonomy

provides among provisional

sections of needing resuscitation, altered

XXVIII

promise of the becoming aspectual

darkness

            following                     fingering                      fathoming

                                    celebratory                  syncopated                  serenades

these auspicious

gems or flame of the touchable

italics

needing the celebratory touch/torch

momentum to

                                                                        involve dissolution

engage with the etching of sound as memory’s

mimesis operation

when

elongated serials

sympathize                              as does the leaning inhalation             used

to develop a morning-energy exactness this

volume of diligent pressing of sound into misshapen inventions

XXIX

                        —for Mia

to my daughter I

hand a palm-etched rhythm

                (each lined phrase focused, not yet final)

radial in the facet of continuous

canvass

an asking

to

                                    —envelop in the blurred function a wing

            spans spectral meaning an

aerial designation:

                                                                        listen upon learning

an alphabetic reaction a

worded braided weight

lunges into revelatory logic

leaving

                        in the hope residue will fan the vision of neoteric explanation

                        painting upon extracted verbs

singing into the your-tunnel rendition of physical becoming a

newness in sound within the voice of your growing volume

XXX

of happiness

yet

                        not yet that happiness, as my morning’s laughter is resting into her sleeping

            lean

—in the whole of this moment a

piano expresses

functional creativity the

                                    oval sound and encapsulating mirrors watch

while my dancing

echoes the function of

div

id

ed

                                                            memories |prior/now| and the insinuation of

crisscrossing angles and

their freed extension of this jazz

into noon’s erratic disposition

XXXI

as when evenfall                                 expands the languages of hoar

(need               age                   affirmation                  annual)

                                                                        a serenaded silhouette

                                    soft

in the silver gift of anniversary assumption

            lets

through loosened meanders

                                                                                    realized span of song

and the interrogating eyes of neoteric thinking

reacts

redistributes

recommends

interrelated meanings to

dissolve prior

endeavors to impersonate

language