Felino A. Soriano

morning this fragmented salutation

abridged

the hand of your repose

visceral, raises a saluting manifest

toward

experiential understanding, amid

cultural rejoice within awakening’s

multilingual aggregations

revealed

ascend

the body becomes vertical accentuation,

mobilizing ambulation

performing silent steps of a dancer’s

earliest exclamation—

portend behind curtain’s opaque clarity

the retreat becomes history of horizons and

desolate retrieval of the mind’s

elongated and interrelated

grasping

noon

all motion now adjusted,

the bend of each moment’s

ascertained concern

relives echo of effort’s rejoice:

the rest of morning’s silence

confirms adjusted emblems as

sacred dualities of darkened cycles,

isolated certainties

Felino A. Soriano is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. Recent poetry collections include Intentions of Aligned Demarcations (Desperanto, 2011), Pathos etched, recalled: (white sky books, 2011), and Divaricated, Spatial Aggregates (limit cycle press, 2011). He edits and publishes the online journal, Counterexample Poetics. For information regarding his published works, editorships, and interviews, please visit: www.felinoasoriano.info.