Felino A. Soriano
fromBas-relief
(a selection from Fragmented Olio)
Felino A. Soriano is a poet documenting coöccurrences. His poetic language stems from exterior motivation of jazz and the belief in language’s unconstrained devotion to broaden understanding. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. Recent poetry collections include sparse anatomies of single antecedents (gradient books, 2015), Forms, migrating (Fowlpox Press, 2015), Of isolated limning (Fowlpox Press, 2014, and Mathematics (Nostrovia! Poetry, 2014). He edits the online journal, Of/with: journal of immanent renditions. 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. Visit felinoasoriano.info for more information.
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fromBas-relief
(a selection from Fragmented Olio)
When stagnant
the breaths form paused nutrition.
Air circling each indentation increases thickened
mobility. Cylinders within marrow
encase culture of the blood’s previous
disasters. Body. Eye jazz. Moisture, elaborate.
Stillness needn’t verbify into death.
An altitude of learning’s tomorrow
To my daughter, a hand
will weave
a dictionary of experiential futures
the hand awaits (as will the philosophy of her eyes’ walking interest)
within the holding paradigm of speech and
warmth to engage the
presence of attention’s calligraphic
components: eyed value, syllables of origami
creases
collecting
function
as
when the pages
surprise in
the magnified emblem of the voice’s gregarious, unobstructed
precept
When writing in the morning
the trumpet is an aggregated solace—
the piano a functional
precision of rhythm’s
certain configuration—
and my memory is focal-expressive
a deline
-ated
supplication
a calling toward clearness’ antithetical
obfuscation
Felino A. Soriano is a poet documenting coöccurrences. His poetic language stems from exterior motivation of jazz and the belief in language’s unconstrained devotion to broaden understanding. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. Recent poetry collections include sparse anatomies of single antecedents (gradient books, 2015), Forms, migrating (Fowlpox Press, 2015), Of isolated limning (Fowlpox Press, 2014, and Mathematics (Nostrovia! Poetry, 2014). He edits the online journal, Of/with: journal of immanent renditions. 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. Visit felinoasoriano.info for more information.