6 poems || Felino A. Soriano

ghosts

                        —for Albert Ayler

symmetry the sound of it/them/we cannot recall then

scale image vision altered                   (eye-altercation behavior)

step sideway motif

blurred or the bird couldn’t continue              (an abscond cannot reverse)

of collaboration

                                                (for Keith Higginbotham)

this identity                 (spacious in the invention of hope, honor)

            together in

the teeming philosophy of erasing i

and reinterpreting reinvention of dynamic-growth infatuation

                                                            w e                  l i s t e n

                        :see?:

altruistic mentioning                           these highlighted italics’ layering of

scents

the whirling

sits for a momentary prosaic syncopation

personal not esoteric

immanent more so within the mind-bridge becoming

parallels of speaking into

trading reflectional                                                                   rarities and

including (dismantling labels and their masked disqualifiers)

sound or

of the sound this

beauty

                        unravels

Of glass

glass and its contained quietude

clearer to the gift its

brokenness’ asymmetry:                      shards speak a spoken enhancement

                                                            analyzing light’s burgeon and penetrating

                                                            process

                                                this

reaffirmation of sound

with a beauty amid body

stilled onward and to feel

what the abandoned body

delivers in warmth, irony

attached legacy size or

tonal aggregation gone

is the transparent reason

the body formed into

fruition

object

we’ve oriented away

thus

removed the fingering comfort to confirm the

interpretation

and watch silence parallel

the influential imagination in

forming figurines of the

needed confirmation

of soliciting a whisper

movement immobilizes placid

articulations

            range and

readied impersonations                       surprise when performed amid the closed eyes of

surprising identities

                        —cultural rain embeds the bodies of its later dissipation

                           song and hymn the hybrid of colloquial                 design

competence engages the whole of a supposed

wandering

when

size and chaos engulf

                                    as the bruising spread of purpled identification

then

            as to cry in the hope of a moment’s insinuating salvation

the mirror looks                       learns                           levitates

bringing

            though abridged

the body’s

            calculated

misery

            beyond

                                    the plateau of a name’s invisible meaning                 

                       

Of youth

from this exhaled vantage

pointing           poignant               viewpoint

downward rhythms

excavate a Sunday’s mores:

move

within the numbers of a memory’s excited meaning

of the child’s

detailed tonal-tongue descriptions: contrasting comparing

these legs and their eclectic

design emblems

this

imagination

originates from or where-from

the answer’s strangeness evokes

rearranged necessities of belief’s

invisibility in

                                    awe