6 poems || Felino A. Soriano

from antiphonies & spectrums

query this notion of believable self-understanding

what exists beneath the stone’s

coldest morning belly, —an antonymic

callus

          of untouched language, the soil

of momentary one-dimensional syllables, an

etch or compression of impressionistic

                                                            solitude?

heist

among the flourish-extract(ers), the actors

acting upon a whole cyclic unsettling

through yank of/

from foundational yen, your softness of birth

has dissipated into contouring figments of inter

woven juxtapositions: gift(s), you see?  my sedentary

unseeing is scented relevance amid missing cushioned

ballerina twirls within oval hands this

wind, this wind of tissue clarification

covers an eye of personal preference

with fathoms unobstructed, causational

focus into architecting absence, and

subsequent unneeded desire to focal-alarm

the body toward caring, caring

pluralized dynamic

alternating realizations music shifts its tonal definition

this owl’s trumpet, patina serenades

in graying fulcrums, elder sounds

warm in their welcoming

        notations, communicating

anthems within splayed angles of

air’s vulnerable

                                       shifting

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and this clarity’s burgeoning

rope attaches, attains in

the capturing habit of

continuous aggregations, wandering

silences

watch and wonder-wander

where yellowed vision

ambulates-in

the motivated sequences of

warming frictions this

evening portends as

summer’s splanchnic

epitome

botheration

piano-void

trepidation            music/less

                       moments preceding death or/an

alternative

slicing silence of death’s enumerative

eventuality

new morning

this viewable vantage: mother

dons her

          daughter’s innate smile

near where the wrist of her desire

bends into the birthplace of pivoting cradle, this

watching finds flame in flickering devotion, desirous

to origami otherness, recreating-from

stale state of isolated freedoms and

                                                                    now

an optical fluency rotates perspective

into rational provisions of

functional considerations

Of internal recreations of differing perceptions

nuances cannot predefine through

their optimistic revolutions                         their

contagious movements into

respelling dangling

mischief of disconnected                             parallels

and misleading truths of

cultural                                                       infatuations

                             many/how-many

letters lead toward the prolific goal of

gossip’s trending manipulation?—

with gradating experiences

synonyms rename

concrete fathoms

advised in the totality

summations guarantee as

gain and fluctuating presences

of conversational facets . . .