Quantum Lore, or How Stars Love

Posted on January 1, 2019 by John Biscello

How lyrically beautiful,

and tragic,

the ballad of binary stars,

engaging the rogue symmetry

and slow-burn turns of a lonely ballet,

two stars,

gravity-bound to one another,

sharing a common orbit,

an elliptical intimacy,

yet never touching,

a via negativa

of grace at play,

a magnetic flirting

of blown charged kisses,

and radiant spread

of bluehot wavelengths

that leave ghostprints

on their asking voids,

and in those rare exceptional

cases where the binaries do merge

and conjoin,

Eros explodingly ensues

in pooling corteges of light

and gospel,

testifying to the magnifience

of stars in love,

in the whitehot throes of cosmic lust,

colliding

once

and forever.

binaries

About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, spoken word performer, and playwright, John Biscello now lives in Taos, New Mexico. He is the author of three novels: Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, and Nocturne Variations, and a collection of stories, Freeze Tag. His fiction and poetry has appeared in: Art Times, nthposition, The Wanderlust Review, Ophelia Street, Caper, Polyphony, Dilate, Militant Roger, Chokecherries, Farmhouse, BENT, The 555 Collective, Instigator, Brass Sopaipilla, The Iconoclast, Adobe Walls, Kansas City Voices, and the Tishman Review. His blog--Notes of an Urban Stray--can be read at johnbiscello.blogspot.com. Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale was named Underground Book Reviews 2014 Book of the Year.

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