Scraps

Each one of us are curating our own reality, our own collections.

Philosophy is a crooked thumb trying to hitch a lift to the stars.

I listen to the wind sing, but can’t understand the words. The No Trespassing sign posted on the wooden fence bordered my apartment complex was no longer securely fastened and I heard it rattling and creaking as the wind blew. I know several people who can translate wind. I haven’t seen any of them in a while.

The silence in a snowy landscape informs you, in no uncertain terms, that God is listening.

I have often recalled, and I have often dreamed, and everything else feels like excess.

A story is simply the means by which a voice knows itself speaking, and other voices speaking listening in time.

Other voices speaking listening to other voices speaking listening is the bread and butter of storytelling, its mother node and simulcast nature.

There are visions everywhere voicing themselves. And the same is true in reverse.

Mom that seems to be everywhere all at once: Momnipresent.

Mom that seems to know everything you are doing always: Momnisicent.

I have always depended on the kindness of solitude to warmly acquaint me with words.

There are sentences I have yet to meet. I wonder if we’ll hit it off.

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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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