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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.

Idle

Posted on October 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Green tea, summer rain– Elements to contemplate in savored idle.

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Going

Posted on October 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In spaces between, we are supported to dream– Distance knows no bounds.

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Horizon

Posted on October 2, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems Every voyage is a first and last, an avid siren and amen to condensed passage– Heed the call of your heart’s holiest seethe and rapture, to know itself, uncharted, a trespasser braving the permeable furor … Continue reading →

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Voyage

Posted on October 2, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems In reality every ship a ghost ship passing between lives.

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Berth

Posted on October 2, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Repose commingled with distance is the dreamer’s stillest means to cargoless departure.

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Foolproof

Posted on October 2, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. It happened gradually, then suddenly– Starting with the last first step off cliff’s edge, followed by the syncing of descent to an upward arc– This is what fools do, betting on themselves each and every … Continue reading →

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Measure

Posted on September 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We all must take it, the long slow measured walk home– Be kind in passing.

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Corner

Posted on September 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Slices of lives quartered and drawn into fugitive impressions and fleeting spells, the footfalls of strangers passing, of ghosts echoing blurs of transit among street corner edges– In a world of ceaseless turning, distance quickens … Continue reading →

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Slow Take

Posted on September 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The world disappears in the space between first sip and still life, adrift.

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Nighwatch

Posted on September 25, 2023 by John Biscello

His native habitat was a window by moonlight. He would crouch there, gauzed in night mist, his fingers always poised upon his chin, as if rigging speculation, or some unresolved quandary, and he’d find me, writing at the kitchen table, … Continue reading →

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