Station

Historyless is where I come from, the sun-crotched navel, the part of me not yet born, the part of me dead to the world on its way to being born into the potholes and foothills of unimagined fictions. That, plus a blue blue want, and soft blue rose cradled into my palm, which I attempt to not crush (its rare delicacy an everyday reminder): we must not lose touch with the feels, the feels…

I am, in this dank dreamless station, waiting to be born, waiting to discover, what I mean is uncover, all an uncovering and remembering, re-membering by definition is membering beyond the vagabondage back to the I-never-borning I-never-dying, a sworn truce with the be-all end-all.

On the cosmic level, there are no tears. Dry windless worlds beaconing light to anoint the variations on selves cycling through and through, no end to selves sounding a concert, selves in a slideshow alone-feeling yet connected-teeming. This, the glimmer, cruise and glaring crises of phenomena, daring is to be what is. The blue breath of want chastises mirrors. Nowhere as in the present moment and now-here. Language equal parts glyphic and syphilitic as it traffics sublimely in warm belongings and hints.

I, in the dank dreamless station, native votives in blue and gray, I am waiting to be born, and the world that follows will be one of prevailing fictions, a succession of plot twists in a long dreadful line of penny-ante suspense, potboilers, pulp, red herrings and reversals of cause.

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; 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 produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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