Felino A. Soriano

from Forms, migrating

But

“Everything but sleep.”

                  —Li-Young Lee

And night is the momentum

of halting light’s music.  Acrobatic

angles

     of the humming

-bird’s relevant vanish

          spelling disappearance

as well as noon’s oscillating

               hiding.  Dusk

recalls a memory of hybrid fascinations

: penultimate hour prior to the weight bearing model of rest’s diligent coming

- loneliness to an incessant desire, to the brokenness tiredness resembles within a mirror’s relocating accuracy.

                                                              When singing silences.

A darkened contour

a small circle under

the eye of distance’s

braiding bodies.

Found

Found burning, synonyms.

Using alternate species

cannot overwhelm

into breathing accentuated

nuances.  Always.

                  Embers

         thickened, calling smoke into dance, an

                                    alphabetic purpose

                           spelling

         delay as joy.                  In this company

                                             of halos

                                             elegies transform

                                             permanence

                                             permeating the body’s

                                             pertinent condition.

Winter

Bones falling into hands

lose the prior

priority of angled

assessment, agreeable

articulation of conformation.

Movement.  Warmth.  Pastel.

Newness bends and becomes

a brand of compressed alteration

of spatial synonyms.  The body reveals

an ownership of air’s

reconstruction of portending

guesses, what will arrive

on a timeline of numerical

decency.  Ballads

sing a softened nuance

into listening’s momentum

of finding safe to predict this

home’s interpretation of

winter.

Felino A. Soriano is a member of The Southern Collective Experience.  He is the founding editor of the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics and Of/with../Poet/Felino A. Soriano/POET/2014/Forms, migrating/The derivation of hours/differentiapress.com; in addition, he is a contributing editor for the online journal, Sugar Mule.   His writing finds foundation in created coöccurrences, predicated on his strong connection to various idioms of jazz music.  His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology, and appears in various online and print publications, with recent poetry collections including Of isolated limning (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Mathematics (Nostrovia! Poetry, 2014), Espials (Fowlpox Press, 2014), and watching what invents perception (WISH Publications, 2013).  He lives in California with his wife and family and is a director of supported living and independent living programs providing supports to adults with developmental disabilities. Links to his published and forthcoming poems, books, interviews, images, etc. can be found at www.felinoasoriano.info.