Author Archives: John Biscello

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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.

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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Street

Shuttered, close to mute, street’s ebbing pulse, gently clasped– painter’s cede to blue.

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One

It used to be fun, time spent with invented friends– One plus none equals?    

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Tracks

Slowed to deepen tracks, devotion marks the way through– Time’s storied passage.

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Cradle

Fearful symmetry, the shape of deep, fragile love– Winter’s cradle, stirred.

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Tropic of Cancer

To lance a staid form, with crab-claws bent on rupture– How masters shift course.

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