Beginning Now

Posted on March 15, 2018 by
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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.

About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, spoken word performer, and playwright, John Biscello now lives in Taos, New Mexico. He is the author of three novels: Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, and Nocturne Variations, and a collection of stories, Freeze Tag. His fiction and poetry has appeared in: Art Times, nthposition, The Wanderlust Review, Ophelia Street, Caper, Polyphony, Dilate, Militant Roger, Chokecherries, Farmhouse, BENT, The 555 Collective, Instigator, Brass Sopaipilla, The Iconoclast, Adobe Walls, Kansas City Voices, and the Tishman Review. His blog--Notes of an Urban Stray--can be read at johnbiscello.blogspot.com. Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale was named Underground Book Reviews 2014 Book of the Year.
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