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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.

Dialing Monty Python

The bright side of life, long distance salvation plan– Calling all martyrs.

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Monroe and Dietrich

Fated alignment, luminaries to bask in– Arc of frozen lights.

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String

Small world on a string, between primate and grinder, intimate rapport.

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Carousel

Spiritual keys? Horses circling Childhood’s glee to enter heaven.

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Charles Mingus

Fingers leaving prints, aftershocks to reckon with– God’s happy seizures.

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Tether

Monkey mind tethered to a man’s quest for music– Grail’s holiest fool.

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Bicycle

By cyclical turns, the simplest revolution– joy rides forever.

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Passage

Winter’s privilege, to see inside a snowflake– faeries passage home.

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Spiral

Time’s spiraling melt– Must you be leaving so soon to arrive anew?    

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Meshes

Liquid net of glass, meshes court supplest longing– Dreams brace thinnest air.

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