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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.

Morph

The Bardo Hotel, respite for amorphic guests– Where change becomes you.

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Constellation

Fixed constellation, modeling blank verse in white– Deep, airless quiet.

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Sorceress

Budding sorceress, basking in a siege of text– long shadows at dusk.

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First Snow

Upon first snow’s feathery kissing of bare limbs, interlocked, we will know ourselves as Nature, never truly apart, the sheer force of dream on white too powerful to sever.

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Glint

Star-rise, to the belt of dawn, we have been sworn in by Love’s chastened edge

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Sun

One of those days, sun bathing in elliptical gold– No clouds to obscure.

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Caution

Vigilant tracking, she stalks life in wary frets– Caution testing fire.

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Lyric

Between passages, the molten birth of Lyric– In labor, she chastens.

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Sylvia in Blue

Gauging twilight’s depths, the poet draws blinds to dream– Hope, worn to silence.

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Fuse

Air chastens itself when given room to circulate, its holy charge the generous breath of God respiring toward Grace’s fused ends.

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