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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.

Firewalk with Me

Posted on March 24, 2020 by John Biscello

To breathe fire, holy an act of arson bred by your matchless dragon.

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Ascent

Posted on March 24, 2020 by John Biscello

Crisped at the edges, gilded wings of the Phoenix fanning flames to rise.

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Breathing Ground for Phoenixes

Posted on March 24, 2020 by John Biscello

There are baby phoenixes burning inside my lungs. They want to grow into their deaths and fiery unabated splendor, want to consume the ash-cake coronating their birth-days, which matches abolition to symmetry. I am being asked, no forced to open … Continue reading →

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Shift Happens

Posted on March 23, 2020 by John Biscello

Paradigm shifting can kick your ass swift and hard– Thank god for loose change!

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Annotation

Posted on March 23, 2020 by John Biscello

Days without margins, merging embryonic fate to slates duly cleared.

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Boundless

Posted on March 23, 2020 by John Biscello

The sun rose today and kissed my face all over– Romance knows no bounds.

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This Way In

Posted on March 23, 2020 by John Biscello

Between passages, a dark pause to recollect the lighted means home.

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Love and Wonderwheeling in a Time of Corona

Posted on March 23, 2020 by John Biscello

I’m not going to lie. From a solipsistic perspective and point of view, it’s been pretty damned sweet. Nowhere to be, no timeclocks clogging and vicegripping the rhythms, movements and pulse of each day’s choiceless unfolding, an unflagging sense of … Continue reading →

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Edge-point

Posted on March 22, 2020 by John Biscello

Sometimes, you’ve got to stand at the liminal edge, equal parts trespass and yield, your entire life a fragile ceremony of plunge and arc, respiring within spells of wonder.

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The Way of the Fool

Posted on March 21, 2020 by John Biscello

Far from the madding crowd, a whisper called to me, its soft tiny tenterhooks tugging—this way, this way. I followed its invisible trail. Where would it lead? To whom did the whisper, the voice belong? I walked until I saw … Continue reading →

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