"Knit the K1 Kremlin Spy,"
image by Irene Koronas and Daniel Y. Harris
a
selection from configuring recollections
Felino Soriano
from
XI – XX
Occurrences upon fatigue
the
body eventual in the flame
of
how it whispers
into
disturbed dissipation
the skeletal
mind it
uses
to weave alabaster notion
not
an always motivation of tonal
precision—
my
body began to lose interest in the various directions it chose to consider;
the
mind was a diligent maneuver, lost in the plural of mundane intuition
layered fathoms
i.
what’s
appeared has
been
shaped by hands of others’ execution
my
language was learned and forgotten, flailed and
relearned
within hands of memory’s processing
devotion
ii.
this face, a
reflectional
percussion rhythmed silent
as
my youth
is
still relevant a type
of
paused illusion
iii.
These
years of growth. Phantoms. Gregarious
contusions
grow, escape, return. Re-return, a
brand
of bees wearing sorrow into the mouth.
My
throat, a den of persuading. Of
hankering.
I
wanted to dissipate. A death, a promise,
a
belonging
never fit well into either of my ½
used
hands. My endeavor. Stillborn.
Then,
the
face of those knowing of the occurred position.
Furthering
of desired dissipation, undulated.
Eventual
wellness,
freedom.
iv.
au courant ink, a corporeal
wearing prior
never
wore
need against my tongue or
/
and
erased
physical clarity
never
a subject of desired
contemplation
as
my philosophy was to follow and find
rather
than think and behave I
found
a specific set of hours to sit and
invite
ink etched into varied aspects of
my
body’s tonal monotony . . .
