Beginning Now

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Craft. Tactile homage,
and respect to craft,
its inviolable depths
and integrity,
to approach craft
as you would a fertile god,
to practice, radically, at its altar,
to consecrate with marked intent,
and to know in your heart’s heart
that you are always a beginner,
beginning again,
muddying your fresh prints
in texture well beyond your grasp,
yet always reaching, always beginning,
always lush loss renewing
the most noble call
to failure,
approximating countless measures,
where artists dare to tread
heaven’s ground
as time-locked beginners.
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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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