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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, novelist, poet, performer, playwright and filmmaker, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of six novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, No Man’s Brooklyn, The Last Furies, and No One Dreams in Color; 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 plays have been staged and performed both nationally and internationally.

Ennoble

By tenderest shoots, nuptials chance a star’s violet gleanings, Souls, in turn, twin to a greening grown true in hearts ennobling.

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Bask

To perish, gently, in a siege of love, every last wildflower the smiling face of a memory, basking, as you cede to the cradle of warm dream.

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Star

By solitude’s star, on any given night, a twinning may occur to praise phenomena, our bodies, alight, infused with never-ending gospel.

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Lightning

your body, charged and opening, receives me in tenderest vein and history, recalling rain-faced flowers as petals glisten and bend.

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Perish

Sincerity, with the price tag of ephemera, in passing, promises flash, scar, and then perish.

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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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