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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.

Elements in the Making

Lone tree on the hill, has nothing to say to sky– Praise, moved to silence.

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His and Hers

I saw us, my love, long after we were gone– Ghosts of lives, well-worn.

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Here’s Looking at Us

Is this not the art and trick to being human, and in love? A matter of perspective, a rooted widening, wherein distances harbor the marvels of intimacy in rapt enclosure?

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Her

She, the mystery, to whom I turn toward, falling, with light in my eyes.

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Corner Shot

The word on the street kept him waiting for a dame made of ink-wet dreams.

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Coquetry

The sea’s salt-fringed skirt glistens, while flashing rare pearls- Shoreline pants, waiting.    

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What Lasts

Renewal, in nuptial surges and capered bibs of froth; the stones, studded to shore, ennoble the silence of their music to the fondling sea, mates playing freely on the wild fadeless cusp of here and forevermore.

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Hypnotherapy

The most curious eye, voracious in its wandering, seals volumes of air for Imagination to digest and respire in.

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Transients

She was a matter of falling, and scaling the air, and I, street to her clouds, abandoned myself to growing realer and realer in vivid contrast to her sofly fading out and in.

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Listening to the Dark-John Biscello

Originally posted on Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen:
an excerpt from “No Man’s Brooklyn” ? Remember when we were kids and we’d sometimes have sleepovers and listen to the dark together? That’s what you called it, Anya, listening to the dark.…

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