Felino A. Soriano. Of Drums.

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cylinders                      cycles                          these/or serenades

rhythm-ness, -ing

recalling spatial hours and their camaraderie of angled light

                                                            aggregating

                                    amid syllables of ontology’s

reexamining

remixed cultural data

implemented by tongues whose

featured thinking thinkers

delegate into whole-time fires

unwilling to assume the

relegated subsequent

awkward dissipation

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committal validation

softened by the opening

dawn invents (though, ungainly)

ornamenting an hour’s tonal elongation

mentioning the span of its hand-hand

game of hemming angles

movement engages livened

interrelation, providing sectioned motives

dissolves beyond the knowing of obtained

inhalation

˟3˟

renaming excludes achromatic objects

as to for, why engage in the rearranging

method of name or name-name appositional

alteration

?

claiming amid a bridge of whole expression

emotion or specified cycles

experiment into age’s

fixated mannerisms

enthralled

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Felino A. Soriano has authored nearly five dozen collections of poetry, including Extolment in the praising exhalation of jazz (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2013), the collaborative volume with poet, Heller Levinson and visual artist, Linda Lynch, Hinge Trio (La Alameda Press, 2012) and rhythm:s (Fowlpox Press, 2012).  He publishes the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics and Differentia Press. His work finds foundation in philosophical studies and connection to various idioms of jazz music. He lives in California with his wife and family and is the director of supported living and independent living programs providing supports to adults with developmental disabilities.  For further information, please visit www.felinoasoriano.info.