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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.

Rites

From the series, Japan Poems Down by the river, a boy and his grandfather– Soft grass grows through stone.

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Where We Are Not

From the series, Japan Poems A turned head beckons the promise of faraway– Lie again, softly.

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Seasons

From the series, Japan Poems Street festival, June, summer kimonos in bloom– Autumn waits its turn.

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Umbrella

From the series, Japan Poems Eternity found in grains of sand, scoured by sea– Pairing, without qualms.

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Silk

From the series, Japan Poems Flowers in the dark smell different from flowers not in the dark. Hands part silk to sunder the gauzy veils of sleep with tenderest unconditional regards.

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Innocent When We Dream

From the series, Japan Poems The longing for peace in loving sync with repose– The softest route home.

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The Journey

From the series, Japan Poems. No words to describe this passing sense, here now gone– Dreaming in real-time.

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Respite

From the series, Japan Poems Fleeting intervals where a pause is magnified to widen one’s berth.

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Give Us This Day

From the series, Japan Poems. In lieu of the Last Supper, I give you Lunch at the Ramen Shop, each man a disciple unto his own appetite to savor the slow heaven of noodles in pews of intimate congregation.

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A Moveable Feast

From the series, Japan Poems. In search of lost time, in a realm of sea changes– Your last step, your first.

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