Quantum Lore, or How Stars Love

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, 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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