Digging for Air

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There was always plenty of tomorrow-talk, bright ribbons of noise amounting to nothing.
What we would do, where we would go, how we’d become this or that.
We erected fragile monuments to ourselves, and expected others to pay their respects, perhaps even worship the idols we had carved out of thin, ribbed air.
We talked big because that was the racket, because we were kids on a street-corner,
emotional asthmatics stealing helium from the lungs and lives of others,
prospectors mining for rare altitude.
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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; 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 produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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