“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”
How many,
committed to their record of days
upon the earth,
crusade with a pen
and floating paper lanterns
pooling soft warm light
into the history of hidden valentines
pressed between the vellum pages
of a life
lived after the facts,
and before fiction’s altar,
a course on hunger
and its commensurate desires.
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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.
