Hermit

Hermit,
of singed tassels,
have you raised hell
quietly deeply
within,
to better discern
and negotiate
the holy seethe of flames?
Have your voices,
and their cold blue chains,
grown numinous
through years of patient greening?
Hermit,
how wonderful
that your silence
rounds off
and billows
like golden sheets of birds,
like bales of soft cursive,
unfazed by newsprint,
gossip, malice,
Eden
and other matters
quick to fade.
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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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