Winter, A Love Story

Winter’s brides,

wearing long white scarves of sleet and song,

touching pale sky to blue lips,

breathing memory and frost;

their sorrow

and spectral want

grows hands

that enclose me, a robust crush,

matrimonial in its grip,

until I am no more than a whiff of air,

and then, not even that, a traceless speck

unremembered to light,

and how it falls.

About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, novelist, poet, performer, playwright and filmmaker, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of six novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, No Man’s Brooklyn, The Last Furies, and No One Dreams in Color; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His plays have been staged and performed both nationally and internationally.

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