Memory as a course charted, as grooves engraved into void through perennial retreading.
Have I been here before can be replaced by have I been here again?
It is part of the unflagging tease and conundrum of endless.
Ask yourself—have I been here again? how many times? why do I keep coming back? was I the same person? in Memory’s limitless wardrobe of existential drag, what did I wear and who did I become?
To be lost is to be found wanting. Some choose lost as an outlet. Or alternative grieving process. Some choose lost as sense of subterfuge and misdirection. Some choose lost so as to give their weary wanderer relevant use for compass and moonlight. Some have lost thrust upon them.
The footprints you are tracking in the void may be your own.
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.
