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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.

Folly

All tomorrow’s masks, bearing Sorrow’s pitied pace– burden of folly.

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Frog

Basho’s forlorn frog, hard copy for lean times, SPLASH– Frog Ponders Jumping.    

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Flophouse

Love, the ultimate flophouse, the dogged prayer-bin, where you swap scars and hopes and soiled dreams pressed to the lungs of light, where half-moon fingernails clipped and kept in urns remind you that life is a fleeting sideshow, a strange … Continue reading →

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Breastfed by the Muse, cradled in a green womb, warm– fool of the moon, torn.

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Auteur

The Rorschach test print of God’s aborted first film– Through the Light, Darkly.

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Apple

Your future iMate, designed to love, as if fate– Apple’s take on Eve.

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Scorn

Scorn keeping vigil, the spread of dissolution– deserts never lie.

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Fellini

Total immersion, world of play, unencumbered– Pan’s blank slate, full.

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John Fante

Full of bright, proud rage, he gave us L.A., unstarred– palms gathering dust.

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Floe

The slow dignity of an iceberg’s quiet melt– words preserved in floe.

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