Still Life w/ Selfie

Posted on May 11, 2018 by John Biscello

How I,

my ego-fiend-self,

craves

and wishes

and desires

to take ultimate credit

for the words

and poems

attaching themselves

to their mortal host, John Biscello,

thinly grafted to his signature and persona,

but deep down

I

understand all too well

that there are forces at work

and play,

which are beyond me/my name,

of which I am a frayed stitch

in a gracious skein,

and my heart, the fool’s testing guide

and tramp

to a fathomless row

and drift,

puckers its secret lips

to kiss the rippling hem

of whatever muse, whatever form/less

bastion of grace

tenders fluency to offerings,

i.e.,

how a puddle

is sometimes lucky

enough to intimate

the largesse of the sea,

to hoist pearls

just above the murk

and fallacious din.

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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9 Responses to Still Life w/ Selfie

erroneouschoices says:

May 11, 2018 at 9:46 am

What a lovely back.

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- John Biscello says:
  
  May 11, 2018 at 9:46 am
  
  It came with the rest of the body.
  
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    May 11, 2018 at 9:54 am
    
    This proves your last comment is accurate 😋 but it wasn’t manufactured quite like that
    
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  - John Biscello says:
    
    May 11, 2018 at 9:56 am
    
    True that 🙂
    
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erroneouschoices says:

May 11, 2018 at 9:53 am

I loved the the end so much, hoisting pearls above it all

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- John Biscello says:
  
  May 11, 2018 at 9:54 am
  
  Yea, I guess the creative life, the soul life, is kind of about pearl-hoisting. Pearl-diving. Pearl whatevering 🙂
  
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    May 11, 2018 at 9:57 am
    
    Pearl diving lol, pearl necklaces, the list goes one
    
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stolzyblog says:

May 11, 2018 at 1:53 pm

But still, it is you, who must listen & hear.

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- John Biscello says:
  
  May 11, 2018 at 2:21 pm
  
  I hear you, Stolzy : )
  
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