Neverland Exposed

Peter Pan’s Jesus complex
turns flights of fancy
into guilty pleasures,
sacred geometry
into zero accountability,
stillborn freezes
into high, happy fevers,
starling charms
into martyred alibis,
deeply felt distances
into shallow runs of intimacy,
and yet beneath all the razzamatazz
and wish-impaired crucifixions
advertised to procure devotion and sympathy,
lies a simple, bare-quivering heart,
pink in its grievous wants
and innocent beyond measure.
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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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