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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.

Braille

Devotion, by torchlight– Braille for lovers when reading each other’s skin and engraving touch in the scented dark.

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Hale

Hymn, inside Her, by which lovers pass hale music, and fire, through a needle’s hallowed eye.

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Crescendo

What about the rough, thorny grace of angels locked in love-play, the traceless sex of light piercing light, scaling an impossible crescendo?

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Eden

Early morning. Turning to face you. First kiss, skin on skin, to claim holy fire coiled in mortal intimacy. I know that one day I will die to you, you to me, Time bruises softly. Sense of ephemera compels me … Continue reading →

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TV

Mounting the sermon, woman channeling desire– High volume worship.

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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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