Approbations 565
—after Trygve Seim’s Between
Between stare stare
blank
opacity
resembles
much
of the broken
semblances
culture contains, intangible mores
focused
finite and inexplicably distant
from consistent virtues of
italicized
beau monde.
Approbations 566
—after Marc Johnson’s Since you Asked
My silence recalls bland-tongue
architecture,
achromatic
logic containing
prayerful condiments, mutilated connection. Your asking
contains metaphoric trails, my standing still
of an oaks’ neighborhood of size, style—
reanalyzes your truth of committed understanding.
The ideal
would be conversation occurrence
countering the silence
my sound releases
broken
confused meaning of my mind’s innate sepulture.
Approbations 567
—after Bobo Stenson’s Olivia
Wears interwoven light like shadows
climbing contextual walls of needed
isolation. Her
alone
retrieves an image of pale, bleached stone
engrained into sand’s warmed appreciation, resting,
the curved lightness
of smoothed exterior
does not wish to wander into sea’s language of
unsolved labyrinth.
Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 32 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.
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