Monthly Archives: September 2026

Hot Coals

Posted on September 25, 2026 by John Biscello

Firespeak sing n swing. This is a mode, a chariot and vehicle of expression. Bardic in its yawping and hot rod in its bebop turbine. Whitman revved it. Coltrane. Kerouac. Ginserg. Bird. Riot, blues and jazz rolled into self-sung nuptials. … Continue reading →

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Window Dressing

Posted on September 25, 2026 by John Biscello

Out the window worlds come in, flashing in doses and quarters  and nickels and slices and geometrical swaths. Out the window is wealthy in examples and suggestions. When looking out the window, when sailing, we become a pair of eyes … Continue reading →

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Fool’s Play

Posted on September 25, 2026 by John Biscello

To take the plunge is, or can be, an act of willful trespass, courting the Fool as you merge with his flagged archetype while plunging down into a ravine, your life tomorrowless in its abyss and calling. The plunge is … Continue reading →

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Post-Scriptive

Posted on September 25, 2026 by John Biscello

Something about the air of absence, its titillation and gravity. Ghosts are highly seductive when revealing their apparent lack. Beck sang about gravity shackles going wild. Genius is childhood endowed with virile maturity. Baudelaire said that. Or something to that … Continue reading →

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Neverland Noir

Posted on September 24, 2026 by John Biscello

Hot off the press! Neverland Noir has been released and is represented by Heuer Publishing, serving the theater community since 1928. This play is available for licensing for schools and theater companies: hitplays.com NEVERLAND NOIRClassic noir meets Neverland mythology in … Continue reading →

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Autumn in F-Sharp

Posted on September 24, 2026 by John Biscello

In her long distance gaze, unblinkingly chaste and running, the bayonet plunges between a rock and hard place, and I, gasping, to air on the side of trespass and empathic fall.

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Runway for Taxi Dancers

Posted on September 24, 2026 by John Biscello
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Jazz

Posted on September 24, 2026 by John Biscello

The work as in the dreaming, as in the dreaming-doing, as in the beat drumming at the core underscored by silence and dark spooning. In the dark we bump into walls, clumsily grope, and tell ourselves stories, sometimes all at … Continue reading →

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Cosplay in the Dark

Posted on September 24, 2026 by John Biscello
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One Good Word Deserves Another

Posted on September 23, 2026 by John Biscello
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