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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.

Ghost

Classic ghost story, you have haunted your own life– No man’s epitaph.  

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Cake

Bride, groom, wedding cake, frosted take on instant dreams– Honey, hold still, please!

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Cosmos

With center in place, growth happens behind our backs– the cosmos abides.

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Melt

Summer night, Brooklyn, girl’s desire for ice cream– Melting, time’s passage.

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Walt Whitman

Of myself and stars, he sang in forked, unsigned tongues– Words his place-holder.

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Mist

There will come a day when, unplugged and remote, you dissolve and slip gently between the veils, so much mist needed for mourning’s soft focus into grave clarity.

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Vintage

Lovers reign by kiss, sealing vintage in time-lock– Fated, no recourse.

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Wonder

Ancestral traces of us, unbearably light– Infinite wonder.

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Dance

Servicing joy’s turn, feet pray upon fertile ground– Grace, joined at the hip.

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Steps

  Bated hints of squall, narrow longing to ascend– where do the steps end?

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