Poems

 

 

Approbations 351

—after Bill Evans’ Peace Piece

 

Watch.

 

Dusk

unfolds her graying locks,

finding home on branch,

 

leaning grass,

 

shadows forgotten

by the steps of travelers

aiming west.

 

Glowing breath

of fireflies’ ignition:

 

this

is the pivoting culture

inviting ghosts

into the psyche of neoteric

revelations. 

 

 

Approbations 489

—after Marilyn Crispell’s Gathering Light

 

Hand’s alone

light

            sifts through fingers’ finger-width

departure

                        from ascertaining hold, grip

performing renewed holding, a brand of touch

                                                not

                                    yet

fashionable:  embracing            between            two lovers

 

combining flesh and braided voice, happily.  In hands of

soil’s presumed dirty region, light

                        befriends

with holy connotations, thus

                                                            delineating realism’s corporeal

experience

                        from hypothesis’ rendition of scientific

hokum. 

 

 

Approbations 490

—after John Surman’s Wayfarers All 

 

We meander.

Fall, alone.  Together, too, fall

past love, beyond notions

the self resumes

following acrobatic tributes

to the awakened state of dawn’s

presentational

                        collage. 

 

 

Approbations 491

—after Marc Johnson’s In A Quiet Place

 

Sounds rise

            twirling praise, resisting contravention’s changes

ascending

from the lake’s orchestrated lumbar

                                    allowing

feed and birthing bathers

                                                            to

conceal obligatory blur

hiding within the beneath symphony of

wave, space                                    conceptual understanding. 

 

 

Approbations 492

—after Joshua Redman’s Wish

 

Or, planted verbs
 

skating

                                    distant mouth open geography

windowed, personal

                                    diameter of sound

relevant upon cultural procession, deliberate

mention of hankering’s

subliminal

 

                                                                        value. 

 

 

 

 

Felino A. Soriano is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities.  Recent poetry collections include Intentions of Aligned Demarcations (Desperanto, 2011), Pathos etched, recalled: (white sky books, 2011), and Divaricated, Spatial Aggregates (limit cycle press, 2011).  He edits and publishes the online journal, Counterexample Poetics.  For information regarding his published works, editorships, and interviews, please visit: www.felinoasoriano.info.