Games

Ask a tree to play hopscotch with you.
Ask a stone to jump-rope with you.
Ask a blade of grass to tickle you until it hurts.
Ask a bird to help you remember how to fly.
Ask a child for a piece of bubblegum
and chew it and chew it
and then blow the biggest bubble you can
and let it pop on your face
and listen as the child laughs
as your heart does cartwheels.
Then do actual cartwheels,
making sure to fall.
Just because.
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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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