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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.

Thy Fearful Symmetry

Posted on April 14, 2019 by John Biscello

Mothering its own vigil and scripture, a chorus ordained to practice the arc of symmetry.   (Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois)

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Catechism

Posted on April 14, 2019 by John Biscello

Cautionary in her needlepoint grace, the eyeless widow kept perfectly still, tracking the scent of air to minster her survival through prey.   (Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois)

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May I Have This Dance?

Posted on April 14, 2019 by John Biscello

Prehistory repeats itself through the bootleg cursive and spirals of a species consigned to the fluency of waltz.   (Sculpture by Lousie Bourgeois)

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Woven

Posted on April 12, 2019 by John Biscello

There once was a spider, gothic in temperament, who swallowed a cage containing your mother’s bones and the emptiness you craved; fasting on silence, your teeth darkened and grew sharp, while your hands, subject to course, fashioned the strictest symmetry … Continue reading →

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Daisy

Posted on April 8, 2019 by John Biscello

The daisy listens to the dark pressing inward– a mute, glistening.

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Ophelia’s Blues – John Biscello

Posted on April 8, 2019 by John Biscello

“Ophelia’s Blues” from Arclight, appearing on Free Verse Revolution.

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Refuge

Posted on April 8, 2019 by John Biscello

The pyramids, askew and caped in starless dark, architected by a child who needed a construct into which he could invite silence to keep him absolute company until the violence stopped.   (Artwork by Cy Twombly)

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The Woods

Posted on April 8, 2019 by John Biscello

In the theater of the absurd, black widows make silky, haunted love to depressed, anorexic stalactites as the radio preys on sound to give the moonless woods its membraney tableaux of silence.   (Cyanotype by Christian Marclay)  

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Orchid

Posted on April 7, 2019 by John Biscello

Reverence, trust, the distance of islands pinned to space; every disquieting cut moving her closer and closer to the irremediable candor of grace.   (Image: Yoko Ono)

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For Entertainment Purposes Only

Posted on April 7, 2019 by John Biscello

It was this sublime directive, engineered by a cooperative of amusement parks around the world, that fronted a mysterious new wave of emptiness, through which initiates annuled their ghosts to the spectacle and darkened marvels of extinction.   (Photo by … Continue reading →

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