BIO: Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 34 collections of poetry, including "In Praise of Absolute Interpretation" (Desperanto, 2010) and "Realities of Bifocal Translations" (Blue & Yellow Dog Press, 2010). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Unlikely 2.0, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Otoliths, and elsewhere. He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: www.felinoasoriano.info.
Approbations 667
—after Jason Moran's Gentle Shifts South
Rag in wind
flag burial
wrinkled salute
salutation regain
symptom of then
cold but healed
reactionary becoming. We
age
demise
nostalgia-hold in hands irony cannot clutch
arthritic synonym.
I used to.
Today I once did.
Yesterday I now
rename momentary happiness
though
age is the homonym of motivated sale.
Approbations 666
—after Jason Moran's Gangsterism On A Lunchtable
Crumb your
wobbly earth soon zoom-etch
against
beak horizontal feeding, tremble swirl
fillable remark of wasteful
or
hiddennuisance
bent
hurl inward stole
revenge postulation
grasp
now
hear
solid
finite
display wayward
hand of hungry mouth
grab binge take
unto hoard
of
excavating
disposition.
