Jean Rhys at Twilight

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Nutrition fact:

Did you know

that windows

like to eat writers

who diet on silence

and dust-motes,

they swallow the writers

whole, or in fragments,

devouring them slowly,

ever so slowly,

until all that remains

is a ghost,

where a writer once lived,

at a distance,

from the alleged world

outside their window.

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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5 Responses to Jean Rhys at Twilight

erroneouschoices says:

March 21, 2018 at 10:49 am

Made me smile at your creative self, made me muse a bit and made me want to read something Rhys right now

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- John Biscello says:
  
  March 21, 2018 at 3:27 pm
  
  Good Morning, Midnight is a heartachingly beautiful book. Highly recommend it, and Miss Rhys.
  
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    March 21, 2018 at 6:30 pm
    
    For about an hour now I thought you had the time of day wrong and that my new nickname was midnight,
    And I’m actually not too dumb. Usually
    
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  - John Biscello says:
    
    March 21, 2018 at 7:05 pm
    
    You’re like a one-woman slapstick team. That’s some funny shit, Midnight 🙂
    
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    March 22, 2018 at 11:48 am
    
    I’m a terrible skim reader. Apparently 😋
    
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