Clockwise Cat Issue 40

Felino Soriano Mini-Tribute
In the issue following this one, we will have a full-fledged
tribute to the greatest poet of our generation, Felino Soriano.
For now, we offer a mini-tribute to him.
Felino’s Artist Statement:
“My writing stems from the perspective of positing a poetic language of immanent
discovery. Often, the burden of everyday language—one offering a sameness
and lack of creative spontaneity—creates spectral desensitization
toward environment and the paradigms of interrogating what expands into
beautiful presentations. I am first, an interpreter of what surrounds me; music is
foundational, and the found rhythms inspire and dictate each poem’s identity and
spatial configuration. I am interested in language as longevity, in advocating for
its limitless disposition toward revealing, —and in this revealing, I aim to uncover/
unconceal angles of what is unseen, the belly of a stone’s cool and undisturbed
silence.” From: www.felinoasoriano.info
Felino Soriano’s
First and Last Poems in Clockwise Cat
Felino published poetry in almost every issues of Clockwise Cat. I have not
counted the number of Felino poems we published, but maybe I will one day.
Here are two poems of his we were honored to publish - the first one from the
first issue of Clockwise Cat (2007), and the second one from the issue just before
this one (Issue 39 - Bourge-wise Cat (2018) ). Interestingly, even though his
thousands of poems featured a wide range of topics, both of these poems here
are rain-themed.
Vagabond's Vision #130
Solidarity combed the hair of absence,
reminding silence that habits fill the lungs of
unnatural habitats. This blue morning with
orange streaks of slanting light arrived delicately,
holding only small percentages of dampened leaves,
leftover from night's lengthy storm:
sentiments among a city whose longtime dryness
begged to feel fortunate through the emotional