We forget vividly.
Absence glares and ghosts inwardly, a brutal slate of charged pixels.
We find ourselves shrinking and recoiling in the hospitable siege of light—projecting, wanting, myopic as the day is long. We question ourselves. We are changed. How? What is gone? What’s there? What has left me? Did it mean a lot? Was it essential? What was its value in relation to my life, my mode of living?
An inexhaustible line of questions swallowed once and forever in the answerless void.
We fidget. We squirm. We coil inwardly and seethe as if holy water hissing on grave asphalt. Absence turns the heart into the mind’s ponderous prop and plaything with teeth.
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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