Do You See What I See?

In the lighted cursive

of stars,

she finds herself,

coursing,

a glaring speck of cosmic language,

a flickerflash dot

yellowing in a deluge of night-sea,

tethered to distant moons

and Memory,

of who she was,

and is,

tenderly traced

and grooved

in swaths of glacial velvet,

that soft gaping yearn

between intimacy

and loss,

between falling

and rising,

where she burns,

and leaves off,

a silent kiss

melting the bluest frost.

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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