Dreamlife for the Living

Posted on July 22, 2018 by John Biscello

It is really

just one long dream

interrupted

in thorny intervals

by fictions that we mistake

for realities,

the single white feather

floating like a tangible

sliver of breath

on the river’s cyclical surface

tells you all you need to know,

not an arrogant, fact-totem

brand of knowing,

but the soul’s

unflagging gospel

and history,

crafted in a warm whisper

stretched across Time’s

enigmatic, half-smiling

lips,

initiating amen

endlessly.

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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10 Responses to Dreamlife for the Living

erroneouschoices says:

July 22, 2018 at 12:41 pm

Telling us all we need to know for our soul. I love this so much, the whole thing

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- John Biscello says:
  
  July 22, 2018 at 1:02 pm
  
  Mostly, I am telling me, or rather my soul is telling me what I need to know on behalf of It, and I’m just sharing in a general blanketspread sort of way 🙂 I love covering people with blankets. And uncovering em too 😉
  
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    July 22, 2018 at 1:16 pm
    
    I was just being giggly about your phrasing lol 😋
    I love your wink comments ☺️
    
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  - John Biscello says:
    
    July 22, 2018 at 1:18 pm
    
    Yep, I like my limited emoticon oeuvre. You either get the smileyface or the wink, and on the rarest of occasions the smileyface followed by the wink. Simple. How I like it 🙂
    
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    July 22, 2018 at 1:53 pm
    
    You’ve moved from the adult (old) punctuation faces to Pac-Man faces so I’m thoroughly impressed with the you and the two you’ve chosen 😉
    
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  - John Biscello says:
    
    July 22, 2018 at 1:55 pm
    
    Thank you, young (coughs into wrinkly palm covering withered mouth) lady, thank you.
    
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  - erroneouschoices says:
    
    July 22, 2018 at 2:16 pm
    
    I’ve seen your mouth. It’s far from withered. Lol
    But I saw you do that and it made me laugh haha
    
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John Biscello says:

July 22, 2018 at 1:04 pm

Like, for typothetical example, if you were here right now, I’d ask you to remove all your garments and get into bed and then I’d cover you in a blue blanket and make sure you were all cocoontucked in, and then, seconds later, I would uncover you and then, well I suppose … cover you 😉 Something to that effect.

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jocelyn harper says:

July 23, 2018 at 11:11 am

A beautiful, mind bending piece, John! I love it.

hmmmm ~ you and ‘erroneouschoices’ do remember this is an open forum? Your hot conversations are fun but perhaps not meant for all to see? but this may be “fictions that we mistake for realities” so I should let it be.

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- John Biscello says:
  
  July 23, 2018 at 12:58 pm
  
  Thanks. And who’s Erroneous Choices? : )
  
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