Painters’ Exhalations 723

—after Garland Oldham’s Mr. Brown Pelican
© Felino A. Soriano


Head of stilled old man’s cane

leaning

understanding unused silence,

mask of altered ambulation.

Pelican’s gray, an ink of calligraphic

outline on sky’s textual stillness,

awaiting writing’s hand of feathered

composition, prose, the postulating of

sacred text unknown by mans’

decomposing appreciation.


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Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974, California), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 18 collections of poetry, including “Altered Aesthetics” (ungovernable press, 2009), and “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009). 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. He is also a contributing editor for Sugar Mule, and consulting editor for Post: A Journal of Thought and Feeling, Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: www.felinoasoriano.info/.