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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.

Formula

Tragedy plus pie equals comedy’s soft touch– Suffer fools gladly.

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Helion

Smoldering ashes, to incite Helion’s grace– You will feel me rise.

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Passage

Path bright to fathom, blossoms strewn to ease passage– grieving home each fall.

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Lamp

Lamplight’s soft white hive, sourcing Solitude’s  tender– slow walk through Heaven.

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Chairs

An empty chorus of chairs humming a nocturne, softly, in unison– Thanks for the memories!    

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Parasol

Will wonders never cease to freeze in place Beauty’s corseted voice, how we kiss rain between slats of sunlight and thin air?

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Rails

Manic with vigor, city’s chaste love affair with itself, off the rails.

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Unrequited

Pale girl’s greenest grief, fleeced by soft seedless petals– Hands blooming to freeze.

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Unmade

We, running and running in place, fearful of cellular retakes, were arranged to be unmade– vagrants to symmetry’s tow.

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Catholic School Girls

The Catholic school girls. With their short plaid skirts and white collared shirts and the inviting exposure between where the skirt cut off and the sock began, generating an erotic glare of exposed flesh. In their uniforms the Catholic school … Continue reading →

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