The Oscillation of Otium, image by Daniel Y. Harris
from Oscillating Echoes
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the quartet of
restored rhythms,
a centered
configuration of
piano
implementation, truant
from the need to
dissect sound
for purposes of
benign definition--
the pageantry
cannot forget
fathom as
reflectional data,
cannot portend
unless the language
of future
observes history's accurate
contemplative
motive
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each syllable
was a wandering
hand
collecting space
and
fiction of
movement’s
deliberate
modular
illusions, every
subsequent
burgeon a
denial of
temptation to
ensure
contemplation’s
desirable moment
collecting
absence
and the fusion
of sorrow,
light, among
what pardons
emotions and
calculated
devotion to withstand
the alone
rendition of
textured
self-injurious
behavior
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each child
waiting
becomes
subsequent to
the pause an
embraceable
determination of
architectural
bridge, a
movement of
waiting song
for warmth and
sedentary
devotion, the
parent
as ideology, an
etching of
innate need (and
need to meet
unalterable need)
crosses into
emotion and eyes,
hands among
hands these
intertwining
configurations cannot
dissipate, whole
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within dark
a maze reworks
distance to draw
a foreign light
entering the diligence
of hour’s informal
confirmation
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each opportunity
to find death
in the hand of
an open moment’s
silent language
of introspection, a greeting,
a lyric of
depositing memory
must organize
stagnancy of devoted
living, hiding,
a buoyancy
which undulates
in the colors
of an hour’s
kaleidoscopic
blur
Felino
A. Soriano is a poet documenting coöccurrences. His poetic language stems
from exterior motivation of jazz music and the belief in language’s
unconstrained devotion to broaden understanding. His work has been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
anthologies. Recent poetry collections include Forms, migrating, Of isolated
limning, Mathematics, Espials, watching what invents perception, and Of these voices. He edits the online
journal, Of/with: journal of immanent renditions. He lives in California with his wife
and family and is a director of supported living and independent living
programs providing supports to adults with developmental disabilities. Visit felinoasoriano.info
for more information.
