“Literature is an exaggeration, a dramatization, and those who are nourished on it (as I was) are in great danger of trying to approximate an impossible rhythm.”—Anais Nin
Leave the impossible
to the fishes
and the stars,
to packed suitcases
tagged for Borneo or Mars.
Or, become like Alice,
and commit six random acts
of impossibility
before you’ve had your breakfast,
which still leaves plenty of time
to do regular things like shopping
or the dishes,
though you can bet
that your noon lunch date
with The Fool
at the edge of that seaside cliff
will be looming large
and may endanger
your routine of normalcy
for the rest of the day
or for years to come.
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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.
