Monthly Archives: September 2023

Portal

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A most gorgeous, delicate, tenuous tenor of web, embroidered with translucent beads of morning-cut rain, this the ephemeral lens through which to view a landscape, a scene, quarter-notes of a dream, or dreaming itself pinned … Continue reading →

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Elegy for the Living

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Out of the world’s slow unseen turning, a darkly candid limb photobombs the dead, en route to heaven’s extended mouth of silence– The living, below, crossing gravely their own secret vigils, never witness the lancing … Continue reading →

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Slow Coffee

Posted on September 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The sign in the window read Slow Coffee and when you went inside and found out the story of the owner an artist and former architect who had a brain stroke he explained that this … Continue reading →

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Elegy

Posted on September 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Time out a cemetery plotted on higher ground overlooking the railroad tracks crisscrossing bouts of traffic houses accounting for lives lived in shuttered flashes the dead amounting to subtlest vigils kept in the way wind … Continue reading →

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