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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Torch
How a writer, cave-timing dark and solitude, annoints an ember by crafting the small hours into a flagrant torch.
Six
I was six when I found out I’d never become a super hero. We were in the kitchen. Me, my mother and father. My father’s hand was around my mother’s throat. He had a wild, bloodshot, not-there look … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged bones, family, father, John Biscello, Literary, mother, no man's brooklyn, Prose, story
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Scripture
To be swallowed, wordless, as the worst you always feared turns lighted proof into lasting scripture.
Flint
I also saw Anya on that trip, though our meeting was unplanned. I was on the subway platform waiting for the train when I spotted a thin girl in torn jeans and a bright green tank-top walking in my … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged addiction, anya, boy, Brooklyn, girl, John Biscello, Literary, loss, Prose
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Second-Hand
We, as time-worn saboteurs, engage the history of scabs and locks, resetting old wounds to the hands of a busted clock.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged John Biscello, Literary, poem, Poetry, time, wounds
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Wish You Were Here
Send us postcards from your loneliest places, your fault-lines and secret rivets, send us words and we promise not to burn them, we promise that something of the ineffable will stick, as if a lasting thorn in God’s bruised paw.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged God, John Biscello, Literary, poem, Poetry, postcard, wish you were here
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The Killers at Red’s
Excerpt from Nocturne Variations appearing in Riot Material. Joe pushed open the door and a bell sang. Max followed Joe into Red’s. The men’s dark hats and trenchcoats were beaded in snow. Joe took off his hat and waved it … Continue reading
Posted in Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged book, diner, Hemingway, John Biscello, Literary, nocturne variations, noir, novel, riot material, story, the killers
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Review of The Girl
Review of Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl, appearing in Riot Material. “The Girl is set in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Depression, with much of its action centered in a speakeasy known as The German Village. This is where the protagonist, a … Continue reading
Posted in Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Depression, John Biscello, Literary, Meridel Le Sueur, Minnesota, Prose, Review, riot material, St. Paul, The Girl
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Pledge
It is like stalking thin, haunted air, and forever coming up empty, she, the dark lady, a shallow fret, the one who will surely bring you to grief. This you knew, and craved, as soon as you laid eyes on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged dark lady, haunt, John Biscello, Literary, obsession, pledge, poem, Poetry, wound
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Tow
Grief, its memory a river bound to a course inveighing a volatile tow.
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