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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.

Parasol

Posted on October 25, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. There is a secret heaven, a cloud-padded nook for those who stroll the streets, vintage in their own manner and calling, parasol doubling as a firmament, through which rainy day blues become weathered postcards of … Continue reading →

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Social

Posted on October 25, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Under cloudy skies, chance encounter between friends– Small talk warming lives.

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No Dominion

Posted on October 25, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Umbrella ghosted by whoever held it last– Rain in the forecast.

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Tracks

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. With people removed dreams travel great lengths to occupy the paralleling tracks of company and solitude.

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Lengths

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

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

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Station

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

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

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Bicycle

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

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

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Way Station

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

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

Posted on October 23, 2023 by John Biscello

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

Posted on October 23, 2023 by John Biscello

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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