Painters’ Exhalations 47
–after Leon Wyczółkowski’s Spring in Gościeradz
Felino Soriano, September 2009
Whose body’s potent leap
fashioned earth’s enormous mouth
into a mourning painting
etched into the canvas’ boiled texture,
releasing a mighty exhale
from the seize of encasing cheeks
into the patterned curves
of curtains
relying on their thin shroud
to filter light’s crawl
onto the carpet’s rotting
skin.
The body’s print
exacted against the chair’s
plush existence. Multiple
interpretations of sitting positions
imagined as
stares into earth’s
many movements
relate self to a tree’s gnarled
crust or squirrel’s scamper
through dulled blades
of grass’ shaved beard.
The present is absence,
gone the bodies drawing
shape within equiangular shape,
warmth of breath
impersonating wind’s protrude,
searching with caressing fingers,
a body to ascertain and
wrap security around
the relaxing waist.
Painters’ Exhalations 162
–after Terry D. Wilson’s Subjective Colors
Felino Soriano, September 2009
Too concentrated. The eyes
must close
showing favoritism
directed at darkened,
unobstructed reality
interpreted symphony of tonal
double entendres. Spring, here.
Thus
fragrance. Too
orchids
hoping to outrun (though
paralyzed in their
predetermined placement)
man’s grabbing, orchestrated
hands. Such
is the butterfly limping across air’s
yarn of fluidity, unlike the child
crawling against
a day’s hyper-conscience
creating myriad open doors
with the leading by subjective
wants,
walking elations illustrating
myopic destinations.
Painters’ Exhalations 368
–after Vik Muniz’s Morning on the Siene, near Giverny after Monet
Felino Soriano, September 2009
An algebraic blue
appearing
as if a puff of humid
breath
blown through extended, circular
devotion
stayed surrendering to visual
dissection
understanding such an obscure
representational gift
must allow devout observers
exhalation, affects of ascertaining
fully
the naked realization
day unclothed
appears sacred,
not yet devoted to ideological labeling,
deconstructing historical views misunderstood
to clothe self in the righteous garb of
mans’
deliberate envy.
Felino Soriano (b. 1974, California) is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He is the editor of Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com, an online journal of experimental artistry. As a poet, he has authored seven collections of poetry, including Among the Interrogated (BlazeVOX [books], 2008) Feeling Through Mirages (Shadow Archer Press, 2008) Calling Toward Clarity (Chippens Press, 2009), Search among the Absent Found (Recycled Karma Press, 2009), and r (please press, 2009). A mini-chapbook of poems is forthcoming from Wheelhouse Magazine, 2009, as well as a full-length collection from Calliope Nerve, 2009. The internal collocation of philosophical studies and love of classic and avant-garde jazz is the explanation for his poetic stimulation. Details are at his website, www.felinosoriano.com.
