Poems by Felino A. Soriano

Painters’ Exhalations 718
¬—after W. Fontaine’s New Life

New life, womb remorse.  New
eyes, history saddened.

As day unbuckles

time’s self re
invents pages of prose’s
intelligent remarks,

each contrary of now’s
resuscitated newness

resembles a perhaps rendition
of past rememories
finding openness as peaceful
pastimes developing notions of
reevaluating nascent
translucence.

***
Painters’ Exhalations 719
—after Jason York’s Simplicity



Subjective
as thumbprints
leaving shadow-calls on
invisible skin of glass’s
silent contour.

Curled
in mind’s glaring recalls,
called to mind in curling
bodies bound to orchestrate
multiplied dimensions.

Light as dimmed elements
unable to shape fully on eyes’
partial understanding, the simplest
function, the purpose of
interpretation:

outline forms’ facilitating collage,
engrave its gestural meaning
into optional manifesto:

philosophy of comprehension’s
diligent indulgence.

***
Painters’ Exhalations 720
—after Michael Leen’s Focal Point II



Distance of the self’s cultural nametag.

Food
watches tongues from alabaster concepts
salivate on cue with nose’s purpose
aggregating pleasure.

By now, identity is the echo of
bodies’ metaphoric
teaching.

As air
curates museum of ersatz becoming,
one eye, eye of partial sanction to deviate
from reality

finds in the spectrum of motional
alacrity

something to conjure from abbreviated distance,
allowing meditation to finalize
fortune’s wide awakened, guaranteed
intention.


Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974, California), is a case manager and
advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults.  He has
authored 17 collections of poetry, and edits Counterexample Poetics
and Differentia Press.