Salome’s Turrets

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)
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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, novelist, poet, performer, playwright and filmmaker, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of six novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, No Man’s Brooklyn, The Last Furies, and No One Dreams in Color; 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 plays have been staged and performed both nationally and internationally.
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