VOCALFINAL

Vocal Apparitions

New & Selected Poems: 2012 – 2016
Felino A. Soriano

©2012, 2016 by Felino Soriano
All Rights Reserved

Artwork © 2016 Daniel Y. Harris
Layout and editing by Virgil Kay
Published simultaneously
by Fowlpox Press and Poetry Pacific Press
ISBN: 978-1-927593-52-3

Soriano, Felino
[Poems. Selections]

Vocal apparitions : new and selected poems : 2012-2016
/ Felino A. Soriano.

Electronic monograph in PDF format.
ISBN 978-1-927593-52-3 (pdf)

I. Title. II. Title: Poems. Selections.

PS3619.O75A6 2016 811'.6 C2016-903092-X

Acknowledgments
2012:

Poems from rhythm:s first appeared in Icebox Journal, otoliths, Clockwise Cat, and
E·ratio. rhythm:s in its entirety was originally published by Fowlpox Press.
Poems from Of the language|s| the rain speaks originally appeared in The Long Poem
Library. Of the language|s| the rain speaks in its entirety was originally published by
Quarter After Press.
Poems from Quartet Dialogues originally appeared in 3:AM, Subliminal Interiors, and
asbestos on beatnik feet. Quartet Dialogues in its entirety was originally published by
white sky ebooks.

2013:
Poems from Espials originally appeared in A New Ulster, Fowl Feathered Review, and
The Altered Scale Blog. Espials in its entirety was published by Fowlpox Press.
Poems from Of isolated limning were originally published in ALTPOETICS, egg, Miracle,
On Barcelona, and Siren. Of isolated limning in its entirety was published by Fowlpox
Press.
watching what invents perception in its entirety was published by WISH Publishing.

2014:
Poems from Mathematics appeared in Mathematics in its entirety published by
Nostrovia! Poetry.
Poems from Forms, migrating originally appeared in Subterranean Blue Poetry, The Fox
Chase Review, The song is…, and Truck. Forms, migrating in its entirety was published
by Fowlpox Press.

2015:
Poems from sparse anatomies of single antecedents appeared in sparse anatomies of
single antecedents in its entirety published by gradient books.
Poems from a wearing of light originally appeared in Eunoia Review, New Mystics,
Plain Brown Wrapper, and VIMFIRE.
Poems from Oscillating Echoes originally appeared in Courtship of Winds, First
Literary Review-East, Five 2 One Magazine, and X-peri.

2016:
Poems from Of this Momentum Song originally appeared in X-peri, experiential-
experimental-literature, and Dead Snakes.
Artwork (Including cover) are by author and artist Daniel Y. Harris. Notes regarding
artwork: Eschatology was first published in a series entitled “The Simulacra of Kodesh,”
which was specifically named for the online featured artist section of Zeek: The Jewish
Journal of Thought and Culture, November 2009. Eschatology was republished as the
cover image for the collaborative book, X & F Metamorphosis (with Walter Ruhlmann,
et al, mgv2>publishing, 2014). The Temptation of Saint Albumin (initially titled
Wilderness) was first published in a series entitled “The Simulacra of Kodesh,” which
was specifically named for the online featured artist section of Zeek: The Jewish Journal
of Thought and Culture, November 2009. Left of Rembrandt, Disbelief, and Penitence,
are from the Fire and Ash Series. None of these three have a prior publication credit.
Daniel Y. Harris is the author of The Underworld of Lesser Degrees (NYQ Books, 2015),
Esophagus Writ (with Rupert M. Loydell, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2014),
Hyperlinks of Anxiety (Červená Barva Press, 2013), The New Arcana (with John Amen,
New York Quarterly Books, 2012), Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue
(with Adam Shechter, Červená Barva Press, 2010; picked by The Jewish Forward as one
of the 5 most important Jewish poetry books of 2010) and Unio Mystica (Cross-Cultural
Communications, 2009). Some of his poetry, experimental writing, art, and essays have
been published in BlazeVOX, Denver Quarterly, E·ratio, European Judaism, Exquisite
Corpse, The New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, In Posse Review, The Pedestal
Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review and Stride. He is the Editor-in-
Chief of X-Peri.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through
our changes in a similar state of shock.
—James A. Baldwin

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the
tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is

too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
—Miles Davis

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
—Aldous Huxley

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and
hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or
emotion back and forth and amplify it.
—Ursula K. Le Guin

For Mia and Jaydan

Introduction to Felino A. Soriano’s Vocal Apparitions

Felino A. Soriano has written a book of verse, Vocal Apparitions, which contains the
whole symphony of his life between the years of 2012 to 2016. I have struggled for over
a month to craft an introduction to Felino’s new achievement in mixing the jazz of a
master composer within the confines of written word.

The truth is, he is a poet that is unconfined, undefined, and it makes sense that Vocal
Apparitions proves to be a prism-splintered refection of his personality.

This book combines Soriano’s mind-mellowing verbiage, unpredictable tempo, and
bravery of authentic voice into a groovy Elysium I can’t stop reading. This book has a
more earthy, tangible, and flavorful side, though. For those who have watched this poet,
editor, storyteller, father, husband, and stalwart man grow through his stanzas – Vocal
Apparitions will leave you sharing a pint beside a poet who stands taller with shoulders
squared and heart beating like mad. In the past I’ve noticed lines Felino deliberately
fashioned to dodge and duck the reader’s desire to delve in too deep. Fear is a beast
every artist needs time to scare off. Obviously Felino has won. That ever-so-slight
trepidation is not in this collection of verse.

Soriano is strong in every poem. He keeps your feet tapping to the harmony he seems
to effortlessly inject, but you know that simplicity (the silence between the notes) is
where genius is heard. Felino would never admit it, but he has created a new, lyrical
marriage between jazz and poetry. He speaks of his child, his affections, and his anguish
that in this book all create a sense of completeness in those who journey from one page
to the next. This book is a big bang of Felino’s gifts. I highly suggest you get into the
meat of Vocal Apparitions and realize my words are just shadows to the sun beyond.

Clifford Brooks
Author of The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics
Founder of The Southern Collective Experience

2012

from rhythm:s

in the celebration of rhythm

applause encompasses maneuvered meaning

road and rejuvenated modular reading of

seriousness: of noble logic
untangling

syllables and
range of horizontal curves a
benevolent conjecture of nuanced excitation the
gradated fathoms of vocal’s apparent solution to
aggregated stagnancy of

bore’s facilitating blur

in the clarity of rhythm

wind
morning
clutching hand engages unwrinkled angles
rectangular speech reaches
into world and the window-size
devotion of distance’s
reopened interpretation, whole

in the maintenance of rhythm

kept coherent cradles

content
context of oval
serenades the
return of the constant
vowel (vow) to the i

interpreting production of necessary
accolades of
sound

in the circles of rhythm

or
the emblems of continuity

the jazz of voice
specialized speech
composes

certainty in the truancy of
jejune

definitions

in the counting of rhythm

particular the language of learning pulses

calculating * (remember)
prisms’ diameters of hope:

circulation triangular convictions a
impressions

fingering at absent ventilation: breath
fixated inhale composure
uncovered hand covering
emotional emblem
theory of open mouths and

regulating structure

in the code of rhythm

radical chaos chasms creating halos

hover-mention goodness resting near
nudge of behaviors’ traceable trailing

as the hierarchy of heirlooms
perch upon examination of other winged
syllables

in the moment of rhythm in the needed

fatigue scatters atop altered land
lauded

land
landscaped to ensure predisposed methods of

revealed reverence toward a
sanctity unrehearsed

, thus
, a tremble resembles vertical calluses

woven to deceive the memory of injure to redeem
in the clock of hearing apparitions
maintaining taint of a personal recollection
spectrum of interconnected distance

in the nothing of rhythm

barren
broken

deceived to incorporate barreled philosophy

borrowed prior echelons

elected nuances sustain hitherto
mathematics
mistaken of the
physiognomy
meandering whole

then/when

symptoms merged a folded monopoly of
absent cognitions

in the love of rhythm

reuniting fingered mirrors wearing identified motions

hand toward again the touch involves manipulation of moment’s
improvised hand
reconstructed efforts
dialoguing
in the enclosed posture of

capacity’s desirous
emblems
not yet defined by the brittle pages of dictionary’s involuntary
meaning

in the motion of rhythm

example, singular:

relevance the pact onto the introverted passive aggregations of
aggressive manifestations the
swirl of fermenting dialect
altered

information from the tongue of spatial chaos
containing virtue in the hidden dilemma unable
to prophesy miracle of the forgiving
disposition

of the contoured physiognomy later, believed by the angled tears against flesh

from Of the language|s| the rain speaks

1.
rhythm:ed
past plur alized renditions
drum then drums
or
(drumdrumspace drumdr um) an etcetera of hopeful delineation against stagnant
numbers’
numerous days sans sacred or scared
scarr ing among a whisper ing whip of softened (healed) wind, realizing
hope and the secr etive love among wet/land
agreeing within solace a ver nacular of sedentary consolation

2.
watch

as my
wandering wave
ext ends

op ens
between
spoken disappearance my fingers
ex
pel

as renovated matter:
the oscillating function their timetables of growth/reuniting mannerism’s
secondar y freedoms to incorporate greeting’s distance / \ proclaimed

3.

within and
between eyes’ cylindr ical sight

ar ms ar ise encounter ing bodies the
brokenness of rhythms each hour constructs as

motion and color ’s excelling
realization—
mobile these predefined pursuits slide as snakes
among openness of vision’s cor poreal regard

4.
words with open hands warmth of gilded

bouquets’
indigenous learned behavior
the tongue
in the instance of
memory recalling gifts and
maintaining multiple fulcrums of
recalling emotional

reception

5.
circles, cycles;
mauve, movement;

tremor(s), timestamp; secondar y achromatic
dosage
ml
of then softened a r ainwalk again halting
against soil of softness and bridge of orange
the leaves left rocking as numer ical order s
arrive
unnoticed

6.
sweat amid population of somatic
thrust, knowledge
of the hearsay
augmenting directives’
mind-hope
diligence of structural
scolding,
remorse

7.
they’ve queried constant
they’ve mandated response
they’ve incorporated ideological freedom
and

they’ re nonlistening mirrors
they’re ignoring concrete-heavy impulses
they’re postulating self of nonchalant directions
and
all’ve delivered guidances of memory’s cyclic
mores consulting with troubled halos
loitering windows of multilayered differences

8.
subtle moments as tiny
leanings
sculpted from the hand-wind
of noon’s elongated memory
portions of sound become
broken fractals, illusions of blurred
momentums, then, as to admire
honoring physical aggregations
time begins

9.
certainty in the emblem of drum
these fingering yoyos these mechanical memories
pulsating

collaborations of sound and
relevant

interpretations

—of
movement rhythm suspended judgments dialogical
meanings
occurrences readied by

broken r ings of elevated truths
these

cir cles of serial renditions incorporating elegance in contoured
tools
these
melodies of fractioned blurs
encapsulating elegance in jazz then mathematics of
the hearer’s
reciprocation

10.

words wearing halos
holding slim fingers of wind’s
elongated

grasp

this greeting of softened kindness
containing verbs of meandering heal
rejuvenating scarred skin of emotional
comprehension

the proclaimer a
causational bed of burgeoned concurr ing
methods to
enthrall, elate
encompass, and
abscond among hatred of
quotidian logic

from Quartet Dialogues

Of inception (in the togetherness of elongated conversation)

several aware

the watchers, —some of the new
impressions

manifest within the/a mirror of necessary (nuanced)

involvement with
the

precomposed data involving out(ward)side influential alphabets, thus

gathering (the watchers de com
press

stretch in
the structural phenomenon of space: |d| |s|

brigade bodily warmth against

outside’s elements of strength …plural…

amid remnants of the walkers outlasting an abridged rendition of the comatose,
unknown)

others
distant

pertaining to an ingredient absent then ongoing
organic then trampled
causational freedom
underdeveloped notions
these ornaments of sound

in their hanging

expiration continue existence, unnamed:

as morning the teacher of varied
mathematics

of an —after

circuitry of notions, negating
syllables their

apparent
recalling obtained yet in the neither (sectioned)

fallacy of sound then defining the echoed murmur
—concealing
concentrating
confining
fragments of the softened compositions

the
error of absence cannot propel among the suitable, living, the

indeed
causational
reinvention of word, or wooden words (alive in the narrative of oscillating woodgrain)
realization motives
in the upward reach then descent approbation

relevant structural motivation
and the entering dissolves upon
burgeon of noted aggregations,
a quoting of sound’s silent
reconfigurations

absolute clarity
unheard deliverance of
mobile intuition, a series of soluble sounds
gathering amid gallop, gallant, improvisational

multilingual interest
in the artistry of wrapping wind around

a rough approximation approximate
to the diversion of

self’s pluralized manifest, unabridged
…in this temperament of radial pleasantries
welcome rotates into peaking smiles
in the hoping fathom

this
sound envelopes
in/with the cooling hands of evening’s silvered

appointment aptitude of rhythms awaits its
arriving amid time

watchers involve tongue and ear
with strengthening bond this

observation… lengthy

Of bass

║1║

these echoes conform or
migratory echoes bend in
controlled contours a

formulated embrace of sound
of nuanced revelations
combining force/reserved
foundational ruminations

recalling cycles of fractioned dissipations
redelivering
skeletal dusk the
clouded

opacity began its recent death as

a civil quietus
containing aggregations
in the visceral context

correlating
symphonies of outside’s intuitive

devotions

║10║

one
-not yet
dancing

heard are voices of twins
their parables predicting
shadows of grammar to
unwind
shapes/shift
into excerpted
happenings, correlating
syncs of secondary memories
of the wife’s burgeoning push
language-recalled

║20║
portrait of these witnesses
angled, attributed memories
echelon of motivated
vernacular
obligated theorists
ornamental thirsting
upon horn and expanded explanation
a
reading, rereading, re-etc.,
burgeoned in the afterward
expanding of end, yes, this
final singing strum

Of drums if in the temperament of crawl

×5×

rotation
rotating

rational
inspired

this
denial of framed

running
ran (rummaged)

enhancive…

constructs when the irony imposes dispositional

muscle

you (?)

listen then require
full-fledged forgetting

disoriented mania moment entrances sans necessary

excitation environment each
focal

modality of sport

×11×

tread the worded phrasing
the
upcoming prophecy of the un-yet motivated

capture of headline rumors, rummaged language
in the

mainstream apology unheard fractions of

devout
diluted experiments of hand-on off-made

cultures of spoken misjudgments

×19×

shallow tho(e)se wings

variable illusions in the carving demonstration

troubled
engaged
entangled

infinitely reaching struggles in the upgraded fantasy
prophesied
extrapolations, ensemble
gradate, commonalities swell
defining forays amid expression of
logical version-small reconstructed
happenstance

Of piano

|3|

listen

listen abbreviated fulcrums

slight

in the entering notion bodies proclaim as

disembodied
mirrors approbate inward
philosophy of

desolation’s misreading
unparalleled discrimination

incorporating well and
unlimited spectrum this

rhythm of theory exists as onward exhibitions of frequent

|13|

I’ve called upon an echo’s
cerebral contextual habit

the
orbiting of

nuanced sentences
continuing

communicative semblances
to

alter sections of speech’s
desolate acclimation

|16|

you’ve listened
amid dance of achromatic fevers—
others
portray mirrored energetic spectrum
possible accentuated here/ness

abbreviating temporal awareness and
temporary cognizant prophecy

Of saxophone

∫6∫

outside I imagine a green greener upon
clarifying substance:

an avocado leaf removed from contextual mayhem
a

landing occurs (then death, realized)
concerning belief in the broken rendition

rendering

darkened palms whose holding-once

detonated and

shoved
veins of smooth uncloudedness\/optimistic
living

engaging touchers’
performance amid unknown closeness to life’s metaphorical

enlacing

∫16∫

my listening deconstructs
ability’s nonsense then
nonchalance (hence absence of necessary
pronounced progressive renditions), pertinent undoing
creative (caveat) interpretive societal
companions—

organic
in the wrestling of dual thus pluralized (I’ve encountered a syncopated pluralist
gaining
meaning more so as abundance of the physical aspectual
delivery of momentum of asymmetrical combining, correlation)

reactive measurements, meandering
multilingual extents
positioning relayed
rhythms as breath or
windy whereabouts
landing into gregarious
notion of witnessed
considerations

∫18∫

alone this
hour escapes prior reactions

charmed
sometimes
or/at times a
gathering

of impulses
rotates
penetrating
with (hope) a
denied
symphony of scented responses

scatters



2013

from Espials

9

your capItalized logic
sears scented entropy
into paradigms of internal
signatures, the others’ and
their theories impose overweight
constructs immutable in
comparative concerts—the
tones—all very interpretive
interesting intimate as
the images of hands on
sounds, grasping communication
in the warming of interrogating
rhythms

16

air or the noun of its presence

spac e figuration

component clarity

i.e. the window’s antecedent
rewind prior even so to the northern lift its function
later southward

revives

shifting
angles

eclipse in the derogatory system

language manipulates onto
muteness

17

this wind walks atop the spine
of morning’s elongated entrance
its

footing freed
finding

radial momentums atop dawn and the
reversible fabric night expands among the
oval hours’ vibrating ballads

18

moving toward this window’s
open aggregations, frame then frame-by
immediate measurement collides
in the focal formations my eyes’
fulfill as creative contouring
freedom

19

family this
fortune of skeletal

understanding

stands

silent

hovering halo their
holding angled hands

reconfigured ballads

involving sound and the

volume inheritance offered

often though unheard

in the evidence of

nurtured watching

their

alignment of smiles

too fervent to

incorporate adequate

interpretation

20

a streaking

orange

resembling

fade or the finishing of

a memory’s

glide-off autumn-away spatial

wing-emblem adaptation

running mixed rotational colors

kaleidoscope

focal blur then clarity in the sense of
relief it will return

54

turn
in

g

in:to
ward

clarity

as does autumn’s vocal ex pans e

delegating color as sign

them emblem of praise this
softness of curve

volunteers pace:
breathe or

pretend beneath
a parallel of beautiful lines

outlining what the hand holds
as scent or scenery of greens
near where prose hides between

lips of oak’s gnarled enunciation

55

ceremony containing

rain and running horizontal structures
wetting

waiting

watchers

walk into the crawl of causational pausing, splaying eyes into

directional differences
intercepting tone and tonetone renditions of altered

perceptual
intuition