poems by Felino A. Soriano

[from Of these spiraled identities]

 

XXXVIII

 

of this stone in-hand or hand-on stone’s relevant

belly

                                   the soldered speckles of bluegreen asterisks

                                   walking from cold onto the warming U-turns

atop

my fingering curiosity

 

 

XXXIX

 

 

an orange of hover

safe

           that/this articulate survey of noon’s ornamental tonal

 

running

                                 from/in

 

ironic mention the language exposes dual impersonations and

 

oval ontology

 

vacating premises already (pluralized) altered (pluralized)

 

and the penetrating of the jazz this

 

syncopations observe

 

 

XL

 

trying and its predetermined myth s

 

relevant though

in the fascinating                                 attempt to alter

                                 midnight’s

reflection of

 

achromatic features

 

                                                                  the physiognomy felt

in the pathos of a photographed cliché