| Painters' Exhalations 48 —after Charles Angrand's Man and Woman on the Street © Felino Soriano Arriving where once absence populated textured sidewalks, the animated rust crawling splayed roads of streetlamps' esoteric coned-black slenderness. Never fully reaching your shadows' call, until a pause to reunite breaths with angled light causes entrance into emaciated walls of an antiquated building: here, in the full-fledged recess from ambulation's many forms, your sitting is the symbol of togetherness, more so than a flock of foreign tongues dilating a conversation into the realm of chaotic listening, and here, while sitting among peers of reunification, you both recognize a change in faces gone since the moment genesis meant your meeting: smiles have carved emotion into the stone columns of aging, underused expressions. |
Biography Note:
Felino Soriano (California) is a case manager working with developmentally and physically disabled adults. He is the editor of the online experimental poetry journal Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com. He is the author of three chapbooks Exhibits Require Understanding Open Eyes (Trainwreck Press, 2008), Feeling Through Mirages (Shadow Archer Press, 2008), Abstract Appearance Reaching Toward the Absolute (Trainwreck Press, 2009) and
an e-book Among the Interrogated (BlazeVOX [books], 2008). The juxtaposition of his philosophical studies with his love of classic and avant-garde jazz explains his poetic motivation. Website: www.felinosoriano.co