Felino A. Soriano

3 poems from Portions of Conversational Assemblies

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Approbations 529
........—after Keith Jarrett’s "Part II b"


Part II a: ascertained, completed..............................Now’s

version
.....................consultation brand........echo of calling bodies
touch
rejoice
rekindle
...............................exposed breaths gone
as yesterday’s joy of fulfilling hankering’s diverse understandings. What’s

becoming is the coming virtue unfelt until near the surplus of emotional
........happenstance
................delving
........................beyond
................................cultivated muses
seen near fire of opening’s
comprehension.

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Approbations 530
........—after Marc Johnson’s "Black is the Color of my True Love’s Hair"


............................................................Her strands
............................................................................silken
................woven timelines of
aged transformation, crawling
explanation............mention surplus dying: prior strokes of a brush’s

gilded teeth, taught of sacred motions

kiss
.........condense
vertical embrace
...............................gone
to the leaving motion she........................becomes

walking from the mirror of her morning

.........routine.

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Approbations 533
........—after Geri Allen’s "It’s Good to be Home Again"


........................Wearing
draperies
................of respect, woven, hand-woven
time-intersected
embrace-touching
........................draped
around neck of long
day of notions. Into
door of her smiling operation, scent
of the evening meal
................hovers
proclaims promise of warming
besotted salutation.

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Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 31 collections of poetry, including “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009) and “Delineated Functions of Congregated Constructs” (Calliope Nerve Media, 2010). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Unlikely 2.0, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Otoliths, and elsewhere. He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: www.felinoasoriano.info.