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Author Archives: John Biscello
At the Beckoning Edge
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.
Posted in Poetry
Tagged arclighting, edge-point, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, surrender, trespass
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From Shards, a Cathedral
From the absolute hovel of unlettered ruins, a crabby shard, reflecting a tasseled badge of moonlight— this, the modest origins to ceremony and marvel, as she built an outlaw cathedral of self, in which she dwelled and worshipped, vagrantly hospitable … Continue reading
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Tagged cathedral, cathedral of self, John Biscello, love supreme, poem, Poetry, transformation, what a little moonlight can do
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Arson & Grace
Collection of plays forthcoming from CSF Publishing. Arson & Grace Think of this collection as a black-market passport to a realm of lucid dreams and savage jest. Or as the splintered signpost to a crossroads where pop culture, mythology and … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Press, Publications, Theater
Tagged american railroad, book, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, New Mexico, new publication, New York, oregon, play collection, plays, Theater
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Jean Rhys
You held the islands in your eyes, where it rained and rained and then the sun warmed wet to a wafting hiss. This Jean, you, the feline slink, filigreed shock, and sinewy comb of whitelaced waves ruffling upon puttied blobs … Continue reading
Posted in Books, photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged arclight, author, Good Morning Midnight, islands, Jean Rhys, John Biscello, Poetry, Prose, tribute, wide sargasso sea
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Jackson Pollock
Out of silence, and lidded smolder, arose a localized storm. You could say it was a balletic squall forecasting its own tyrant reign and fall, a fate designed to galvanize and then blackout not so gently into that goodnight exit … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry
Tagged 1950s, Abstract Expressionism, action painting, Jackson Pollock, John Biscello, New York, Poetry, pop mythology, primal grafitti, shamanic art, tribute
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Losing my Religion
Religion of rain, I prayed to get wet, and then entered her slowly.
Hurry Slowly
“Hurry Slowly”was the ticktock mantraof the photographer,Josef Sudek, who praisedand made lasting secret loveto his Muse and ghost-veiledbride, Prague,vowing his fugitive eyeto herand her alone. Photo by Josef Sudek
Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry
Tagged John Biscello, josef sudek, moodscape, mystique, photography, Poetry, prague, romance
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Smoke
Mortal ponderance– Where did the time go this time? Smoke favors silence. Photo by Josef Sudek
Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry
Tagged John Biscello, Poetry, prague, josef sudek, haiku, photography, time, smoke
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