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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.

Lengths

From the series, Japan Poems. Dreaming is given to distances laid over by intimacy.

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Station

From the series, Japan Poems. Through a gate darkly, semblance of lives, burning time– Tokyo nocturne.

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Bicycle

From the series, Japan Poems. Heaven’s bike country where wheels are always turning to leaven grounding.

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Way Station

From the series, Japan Poems. Metaphors underscore every moment of passage– For example, we being guests upon this earth but briefly, solidly imagined as entities before dissolving into blurs, en route to fading, among the gusty corteges of mass transit.

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Detour

From the series, Japan Poems. In a world of blue, you’ve been through it, haven’t you? Scraped deep to beauty.

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Less, More

From the series, Japan Poems. Intimacy bred and cultivated by narrowest confines is the progenitor and best advocate for imagination’s nubile foreplay in limitless spaces dreamed up in real time.

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Weather Report

From the series, Japan Poems. Satiated want of rain kissing ground open to blurred trysts with strangers.

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Stopover

From the series, Japan Poems. In the fast season of love hotels lusting cast melding prefers dark.

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It Makes You Wonder

From the series, Japan Poems. People who vanish, where exactly do they go? Thin air holds secrets.

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Observance

From the series, Japan Poems. Streets, vivid in character and starred in the calm lore of desolation and subtext, train the wanderer’s interest to stop, notice, gaze deeply at or into causes warming us to the effects through which we … Continue reading

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