Less Traveled

I am here while I went there. I am near yet faraway. Both things can be true. Let’s say physically you walked to a place, a tangible and specific location, while mentally, psychically, existentially, you went elsewhere: you traveled to a mapless and phantasmal non-location. Contrary to popular belief, you can be in two places at the same time. Or three. Or four. It is a matter of, a) splitting off and trusting your multi-dimensional capacity for defection and wayfaring, and, b) embracing proliferation as both a travel guide and mode of departure. The expanded perception and ever-widening umbrella of simultaneity. A pilgrim’s progress is measured in streams and nodes, not miles and footprints. You truly are a moveable feast of varying perceptions and multi-versal flair. Once you own this, you will travel freely here, there, everywhere, with alternative roads less traveled transformed and consolidated into a single dependable path.

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, novelist, poet, performer, playwright and filmmaker, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of six novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, No Man’s Brooklyn, The Last Furies, and No One Dreams in Color; 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 plays have been staged and performed both nationally and internationally.
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