Salome’s Turrets

Posted on April 7, 2019 by John Biscello
coco split
Gardens
grow ruptures
and bisected shoots
of tease and envy
too
you know.
Do not place
the malformed
under a glass jar,
do not treat fractures
with tourniquets,
myrrh
and silence,
do not judge
a moth by its sister’s wings
or addiction to smolder.
There is much you don’t know.
The garden burlesques
its fallopian mysteries
to level a caste of wonders
for the curiouser and curiouser
of heart.

 

(Image: CocoRosie)

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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