Sylvia, Triptych

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Perhaps, Miss Sylvia,
if there had been more sand on your beach,
more sea to wash away
the dead skin of pallid thoughts,
more moonstruck nights
rattling close to your fingers
as you typed out the country of your heart,
as you set bones to align,
perhaps different lives
would have been exported
into a marvelous thrash of light,
how one, split, tumbles blindly
toward margins unknown.

 

 

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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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