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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Canticle
The stars indelibly printed on obsidian reams of sky, a course in illuminated text by which we redeem the necessary canticle to cite a gilded theme.
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Tagged John Biscello, poem, Poetry, sky, Stars, text
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Grapple
To constantly grapple with the past feels like strangling a mannequin, your hands sacrificed to false intimacy and the empty reaping of love’s labor by unreal standards.
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Tagged John Biscello, love, love's labor, poem, Poetry
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Citrus
Upon a citrus-infused sky, bright and sorry, the dance of acidic vapors and serpentine ravels, assuming the burden of a faceless woman, basking
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Tagged Artwork, citrus, ekphrasis, Georgia O' Keefe, John Biscello, Literary, poem, Poetry
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Touch
It is the quiet history of touch, tendered through years of symmetry and fable, a radiant pulsing in the spaces between fingers, holy derived, charging us to mercy and enclosure.
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Tagged fable, gospel, John Biscello, Literary, love, ouch, poem, Poetry
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Golem
Excerpt from Nocturne Variations: I think, the bottom line, Piers, is that one’s protector is or can become one’s destroyer. Angels are monsters in wait, same as monsters are angels awaiting transformative context. The two are one and to divide … Continue reading
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Tagged golem, John Biscello, Literary, nocturne variations, novel, piers, Prose, shadow, shadow play, soul
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What Remains?
If I were to go tomorrow, and by go I mean no more spells of wonder, or lines leveling a manic fate, no more ancient fireflies like safety pins fastening us to thin, thin dreams, all our hollow and chaste … Continue reading
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Tagged being, death, John Biscello, lightness, poem, Poetry, rebirth, release
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Riversong
Show us where it is you’re dying, the silent ebb and roaring tides of dark, expose to us, with a scalpel’s exactitude, the finite lineage of your deepest wounds and locks, and we promise that the light’s searing of naked … Continue reading
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Tagged death, God, gospel, help, John Biscello, life, love, mercy, wounds
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Thursday’s Child
Wrapped snugly in a blanket of godlight, Thursday’s child indwells the symmetry of tigers burning bright to leave tracks on empty.
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Tagged God, John Biscello, Light, love, poem, Poetry, tigers
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Arc
Starstruck, and wrestling within mortal coils, God’s lucid fame overshadows the cast of our solitary arc.
Proof
With the grave mortal nearness that only distance can bring, we enter the bruised, secret heart of our childhood, a stalker’s negative proof, slow-burned to exposure and fade.
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Tagged childhood, exposure, fade, John Biscello, love, poem, Poetry
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