Monthly Archives: August 2018

How Stones Love

Posted on August 1, 2018 by John Biscello

Almost as if the stones, a bundle of prehistoric easter eggs, and petrified sweeps and flourishes of gondoliering motion, were modeling poetry, an implacable ode and incalculable sonnet to the sea, whose flagrant tempest, bound to strict meter, abrades the … Continue reading →

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Orpheus in Mexico

Posted on August 1, 2018 by John Biscello

Wherever there is a time-scarred stone stairwell, there is the wandersick soul of Orpheus, forever walking backwards in search of his Eurydice, her heart the lost season in a hell of imagined distance.

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It’s All Greek to Me

Posted on August 1, 2018 by John Biscello

Katabasis, Greek for downgoing or descent– Orpheus, evinced.

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Monthly Archives: August 2018

How Stones Love

Orpheus in Mexico

It’s All Greek to Me

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