It is a call, a calling.
Lost voices committing mutiny
to service seasons unknown—
Strange wingless angels
of mercy and memory,
the blue ones,
sounding the call, a calling.
Melody hosts its own discipline,
and we, the fragile disciples of music
and night blooming,
engrave this on the settlements of our bones.
Our bones, our bones seized and trembling,
as if gospel raised from zombies
among the centuries of metaphors roundly sown.
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.
