Monthly Archives: August 2023

Sea Change

Posted on August 18, 2023 by John Biscello

At a distance, sea changes, while the wind sings an elegy for the effaced.

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Sanctum

Posted on August 18, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the humid haunt of vinyl heaven one man’s canary soul vaulting in quarter and half-notes slotted between rapier motes and circular motions of dreaming worn down end to end to play on.

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Updated Bio

Posted on August 17, 2023 by John Biscello

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, author, poet, playwright, perfomer and screenwriter, John Biscello, is the author of four novels–Broken Land, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, No Man’s Brooklyn–two volumes of poetry–Arclight, Moonglow on Mercy Street–a collection of stories, Freeze Tag–and an … Continue reading →

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Claim

Posted on August 16, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. To be found wanting is the favored and persistent urge of longing’s desire to know itself as a distant calling toward the siren of intimacy.

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Vanishing Point

Posted on August 15, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Until I can see you, the cities will vanish, effaced mutely in swaths of white on white, a glaring monopoly and divide— alone these distances prevail to hail symmetry, its pageants and faults, the legacy … Continue reading →

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Window

Posted on August 14, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Rainy day, through the upstairs window at the café, framed within the wrought-iron railing enclosing the stone ledge on which the potted plants sit, women in summer kimonos carrying closed umbrellas.

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Noir

Posted on August 12, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Screen black. The sound of waves lapping against the shore. Fade in to three police officers and an unshaved man gathered around the empty boat carried in by the sea. The poem ends, the movie … Continue reading →

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Strangers

Posted on August 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We are all pretending here. Hoping not for the best but for not the worst to claim unsettle or overtake us. The young girl in the rented summer kimono taking a selfie with the misty … Continue reading →

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Passage

Posted on August 10, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. If only in trespasses and glimmers, if only the passages within possessed lasting value— What is that thing, at the edge of waking, that thing without agenda or the burden of always moving freight?

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Forgotten Temple

Posted on August 9, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Moss-carpeted stone steps leading up to the forgotten temple, fewer and fewer guests paying their respects to these hallowed grounds, a song of stately decay, of bones and overgrown grass, a rusted bell tolling absence … Continue reading →

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