Felino Soriano: Three Poems from Of variant rhythms

night as pain or expanded musical infatuation

purpling of plurals: night, each-varied piano solo meander

                    each

voltage of montaged momentum

                              each

arrival of dancing                     diagrams              dangle

splatter (the of-beautiful-though rendition of paint-from

the artist’s intentional             abstraction of delegated remembering or fathoms

from-memory or

mnemonics’

version of grasp of ideals!)

& with every notion wrapped into the palm of these moments’ elongated functions,

                                       freedoms

expose what silence

holds hard or

what silence held in a softened irony

mentioning within modules a serial designation of moving music

what comes resembles a purpose of onward recollection

onlooking does not proceed toward what the body cannot hold

nor does its presence precede what closure contains in the context of silent holding

then, of each hand and rotating purposes

present, upon grasp and intelligent manifestations

a wholeness of warmth from palm and palm-configurations

a lending to what one needs to examine each syllable

from/of tongue and the desire to engage with momentum’s

sometimes desirous knowledge to move

           intuitive to soldered memories

against patina and diligence of time’s circumvolving

conformations

  

Of figuring into such excitement

what resuscitates proclaims

diversion from a death

-near where walking awoke

from the darkened forensics

dedicated to obtain facts or

fundamental mores into

which notion does not

mention failures or fade-in|out

predicaments; the spectral

collaboration divides as

does an hour’s arrive/abscond

narrative, whole in which the hand

holds and decides, — . . . 

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Felino A. Soriano is a member of The Southern Collective Experience.  He is the founding editor of the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics and Of/with; in addition, he is a contributing editor for the online journal, Sugar Mule.   His writing finds foundation in created coöccurrences, predicated on his strong connection to various idioms of jazz music.  His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology, and appears in various online and print publications, with recent poetry collections including Mathematics (Nostrovia! Poetry, 2014), Espials (Fowlpox Press, 2014), and watching what invents perception (WISH Publications, 2013).  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. Links to his published and forthcoming poems, books, interviews, images, etc. can be found at www.felinoasoriano.info.

Some Quotes To Warm Us Up

“That is the essence of science:  Ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”  Jacob Bronowski

“In mathematics you don’t understand things.  You just get used to them.”  John Von Neumann

“Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can’t get it back.”  Christine Todd Whitman

“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”  Neils Bohr

“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”  Wernher Von Braun

“Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.”  Ezra Pound

“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.”  Bertrand Russell

“Stars are like animals in the wild.  We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.”  Heinz R. Pagels

“We hope to explain the whole universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on a T-shirt.”  Leon Lederman

“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.”  Henri Poincare’

“Technology is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts with one hand and stabs you in the back with the other.”  C.P. Snow

“It is the theory that decides what we can observe.”  Albert Einstein

“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”  Marston Bates

“When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all of the works of some great writer had perished.”  Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”  Michael Faraday

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”  T.H. Huxley

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.  When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”  Arthur C. Clarke

“How inappropriate it is to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean.”  Arthur C. Clarke

“All problems are finally scientific problems.”  George Bernard Shaw

“In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”  Carl Sagan

“I see no reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone.”  Charles Darwin

“A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”  George Wald

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”  Democritus

“A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one.  He would have to ask an engineer to do that.”  Gordon L. Glegg

“Physics, beware of metaphysics.”  Isaac Newton

“Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.”  Baruch Spinoza

“It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.”  Richard Feynman

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”  Adam Smith

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” 

Alfred North Whitehead

A Brief Intro

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