3 poems || Felino A. Soriano

from Confirmations

day and accumulation of its instances

between silence and the

                                      surgery of its removal

remedies recall pluralities of uses, how each

hand and guide gain

an accessible purview of

                                      placing language here

                   or

among the pageantries of disconnected

absences—

water’s meander, the gist of physical abstractions,

gauge and narrow body-excavations, modular

affirmations

smooth and softened,

singular or the multiplying

physics of an ensemble’s burgeoning

discovery—

upon these dialogues,

part and apparition, each

participatory direction, each

splay and tonal maneuver

creates a fixating rendition of

tracking movement’s altruistic

causational pauses, and these

dialects of pairs, these sonnets

of unwritten species

contain and hide

within

           dual

                   momentums of isolated,

demonstrative

                             exhibitions

shadow and object

in revelation or

translation or

in the better explanation                             transvaluation

of stone

                    one, of flame 

tossed by the flinging memory of waste or

interrogation of a moment’s weakened

gesture: its

landing

alone

                   a between-version of living and absence              

sanctity and abbreviation

                                                condensed by the funnel of explicit

directional

                                       leaving

study

the              thesis                             faded

                                      found theory-a

nuisance

          negating the experiential function as

subtle                                                reinvention