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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.

Wandering

Posted on October 19, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Empty streets beckon to breed favored solitude among vagrant dreams.

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Romance

Posted on October 17, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Dilapidation a stunning aphrodisiac for the soul hopelessly in love with time’s obscene touch and lusting after erosion as a blatant course of conjugal intimacy.

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Not Basho

Posted on October 17, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The old water pump remixing Basho’s pond frog makes a vivid splash.

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Days

Posted on October 17, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Summer day, parched plants– Kettled filled with cold water borne by the old man.

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Stairway

Posted on October 17, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. It is true, you know– I fall in love too easily with the grayday jazz of blue rustscabbed stairways entreating vision and lore to initiate a dream sequence worthy of ghostly passage without tracks or … Continue reading →

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Currency

Posted on October 16, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The value of grief and mercy intersecting where metaphors are left behind to green and thrive and assume the tendered form of a lonely doll wide-eyed in its longing to touch the ruptured pinwheel the … Continue reading →

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Grove

Posted on October 16, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Out in verdant woods mercy assembles to reign with unerring calm.

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Lore

Posted on October 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Find us, they seem to say. Where we are not is the rootless breadth of our location, the unassailable gist of our lore emptying out to dreams among the force of all things moving.

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Path to Mercy

Posted on October 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Among the hallowed assembly of serene countenances and stillness humble rabbit bows down supplicating not only for mercy but to hear the laughter of the lost children resounding endlessly in a forest of echoes and … Continue reading →

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Faces

Posted on October 13, 2023 by John Biscello

Symmetry, like water, finds its own level, enabled by many nodes of manifest grace, from cheerful stone to worn velveteen faith.

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