Approbations 292
—after Joe McPhee’s Astral Spirits
Visit
revisit. Rename
a moment
as reborn music,
syllables
slide
the virtuous tongue, yes,
in memory. This
is no cliché, for
in memory
the prior shape of a heart’s whispering rhythm
transforms
into
renewed, reinvented,
allegorical happiness.
Approbations 293
—after Jason Moran’s He puts on his coat and leaves
As
does an oak’s
many arms
sluing into virtual sleeves
of a summer sweater,
and stays. Ambulation:
the cursed
mobility
as toward giant stillness
—wakes and rejoices
smiling
into the shadow’s confinement of
lying smooth. He
the father of son and son
building elsewhere as home,
picayune home. Return, perhaps
yet the oak's many arms
too, shed their drying skin
preferring
among the crafty cold
to bare a naked arm
protesting those
unwilling to provide
wholly.
Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974) is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 23 collections of poetry, including “Altered Aesthetics” (ungovernable press, 2009), “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009), and “Delineated Functions of Congregated Constructs” (Calliope Nerve Media, 2010). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Full of Crow, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Heavy Bear, and elsewhere. He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: www.felinoasoriano.info.
—after Joe McPhee’s Astral Spirits
Visit
revisit. Rename
a moment
as reborn music,
syllables
slide
the virtuous tongue, yes,
in memory. This
is no cliché, for
in memory
the prior shape of a heart’s whispering rhythm
transforms
into
renewed, reinvented,
allegorical happiness.
Approbations 293
—after Jason Moran’s He puts on his coat and leaves
As
does an oak’s
many arms
sluing into virtual sleeves
of a summer sweater,
and stays. Ambulation:
the cursed
mobility
as toward giant stillness
—wakes and rejoices
smiling
into the shadow’s confinement of
lying smooth. He
the father of son and son
building elsewhere as home,
picayune home. Return, perhaps
yet the oak's many arms
too, shed their drying skin
preferring
among the crafty cold
to bare a naked arm
protesting those
unwilling to provide
wholly.
Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974) is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 23 collections of poetry, including “Altered Aesthetics” (ungovernable press, 2009), “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009), and “Delineated Functions of Congregated Constructs” (Calliope Nerve Media, 2010). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Full of Crow, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Heavy Bear, and elsewhere. He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: www.felinoasoriano.info.
