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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Haze
Imperturbable, the necessary golem roots in the cradle where lullabies fan, and hover, as if haze to gently respiring bloom. (Sculpture by Constantin Brancusi)
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Tagged birth, Brancusi, buddha, cradle, gentle, golem, haze, John Biscello, love, lullaby, poem, Poetry, the source
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Recoil
The weddings didn’t come off, for either one. Limbo, reciting their grief, and frozen recoil, held them aloft, sisters annointed by a rogue strain of etheric default. (Artwork by Linda Stojak)
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Tagged brides, ghosts, haunting, John Biscello, linda stojak, painting, poem, Poetry, recoil, red, sisters, white
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Man on a Bicycle
The man, to make a living, had plastered hundreds of faces upon walls, but there was something about this one which held him captive. It wasn’t just the stardom of her name, its siren-call, but the sheer magnitude of artifice, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, bicycle, Brassai, carnival, dream, face, image, John Biscello, Marlene Dietrich, photo, poem, Poetry, poster, siren, star
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Scene
She was an accident waiting to happen, came the whispers. Not the kind of woman you’d want to be seen out with, muttered one Mack to another. I always knew she’d wind up like this, cried a woman, mirroring her … Continue reading
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Tagged city, crime, crime scene, crowd, John Biscello, mannequin, mob, photo, poem, Poetry, weegee, witnesses
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Anne and the Clouds
Anne, lovely disturbed Anne, pinned by gravity, and bedded to cobbles, cherishing the vagrant destiny of clouds, and calming distance.
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Tagged anne sexton, cherish, clouds, distance, John Biscello, photo, poem, poet, Poetry, sadness, serenity
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Diane Arbus
The camera, doesn’t revolt upon you, per se, but its mirror, when reversed, convicts an image which forges your name, if not your identity. (Photo by Allan Arbus)
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Tagged allan arbus, close-up, craft, diane arbus, face, identity, image, John Biscello, photo, poem, Poetry
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Soft Focus
After the fall, and subsequent radiant slumber, the child awoke to find the new world awash in lullaby, and dream-soft slips of focus. (Photo by Heather Ross)
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Tagged child, dream, focus, heather ross, John Biscello, lake, new world, photo, poem, Poetry, slumber, vision
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Scarecrow
Sometimes, the inner life of the Scarecrow is modeled on a park bench, where a glyphic repose of crowblack trees levels his brood to mortal dismay in a wizardless world. (Photo by Diane Arbus)
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Tagged despair, diane arbus, dismay, forlorn, John Biscello, park bench, photo, poem, scarecrow, trees, wizard
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Fairy Tale
It is the other stepsister, the disinherited one, known only as The Vamp, who played dark foil to Cinderella’s happiness, when she seduced and blackmailed the Prince, ignited a calculated run of scandals, and forced Cinderella to yield the glass … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred steiglitz, cinderella, dark, fairy tale, foot, John Biscello, poem, shoe, slipper, stepsister, vamp
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Poolside
The water listened to the girl disappear and hissed. It was a warning that no one should try and follow her, every last fragment now belonged to incalculable depths. She was safe from trespass and further fracturing. (Photo … Continue reading
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Tagged depths, escape, girl, haunt, John Biscello, Ophelia, poem, poolside, sketch, story, water
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