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.

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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Reign

By cyclical turns, opiate visions seal clouds– Siren’s acid reign.

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Gathered Crumbs from a Lost Cake

Review of Elizabeth Ellen’s Person/a, appearing in Riot Material. “The poet, Robert Lowell, spoke about the best poems, the most personal ones, as being “gathered crumbs from a lost cake.” Elizabeth Ellen, in architecting a novel from “lost crumbs,” has … Continue reading →

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Shuffle

  Rigged shuffle to bare, Love being not blind but masked– Pair of hearts, folding.

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Chrysalis

Static radiance engraved on glass chrysalis– Deep dreams speak volumes.

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Stir

Scraping grave remnants, the woman’s canceled bones stir– You will know my name.

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