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Author Archives: John Biscello
Elegy
From the series, Japan Poems At the rooted center and trembling wake of this elegant haunted universe symmetry and chorus call upon us intimately as first and last witnesses emptying out to the grief and cherish of every taken breath … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged bamboo forest, breath, death, japan, kyoto, landscape, life, poem, Poetry, symmetry, trees
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Boats
From the series, Japan Poems. In the shadow-stained haunt beneath the stone bridge a pair of empty rowboats have gently digressed and gone adrift from merrily merrily merrily to the edges of solitude mirroring the span and proof that … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged bridge, life is but a dream, niigata, photography, Poetry, portrait, rowboats, shadow and light, toyanogata park
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Set
From the series, Japan Poems. Where the moss grows wilder, clamoring to efface or colonize, or perhaps model a seasonable fashion makeover to the stone deity lotus-locked in stunning repose, who long since ceded his material crown to the menial … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged buddha, forest, gogoan, monks and poets, moss, niigata, photography, poem, Poetry, portrait, ryokan pilgrimage
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Two
From the series, Japan Poems. Side by side, farmers reigning symmetry in repose– The sky, blue to the taste, with chalky traces of cloud powdering the empty course– Images of the floating world persist in material means and long takes … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged farmers, images of the floating world, japan, niigata, Poetry, river, toyanogaata park, travel
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Flicker
From the series, Japan Poems. We are here, but briefly, finite exhales threaded to infinite digressions, nowhere and now here minding a slip of the tongue, a merciful spell of passage shedding lightly to no known ends.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged cemetery, infinite, japan, life, niigata, poem, the journey, vigil
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Nuptials
From the series, Japan Poems. Here, a plot of overgrown grass and conjugal motives– A desirously bowing limb decked out in pink and green, caressing the time-darkened stone of one who has passed from now to now-again… The enduring portrait … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged cemetery, grave, japan, love story, nature, niigata, Poetry, tree
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Portal
From the series, Japan Poems. A most gorgeous, delicate, tenuous tenor of web, embroidered with translucent beads of morning-cut rain, this the ephemeral lens through which to view a landscape, a scene, quarter-notes of a dream, or dreaming itself pinned … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged cemetery, niigata, poem, Poetry, praise, rain, spirit life, vision, web
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Elegy for the Living
From the series, Japan Poems. Out of the world’s slow unseen turning, a darkly candid limb photobombs the dead, en route to heaven’s extended mouth of silence– The living, below, crossing gravely their own secret vigils, never witness the lancing … Continue reading
Slow Coffee
From the series, Japan Poems. The sign in the window read Slow Coffee and when you went inside and found out the story of the owner an artist and former architect who had a brain stroke he explained that this … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged artist, cafe, coffee, furumachi, japan, niigata, poem, portrait, slow coffee
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Elegy
From the series, Japan Poems. Time out a cemetery plotted on higher ground overlooking the railroad tracks crisscrossing bouts of traffic houses accounting for lives lived in shuttered flashes the dead amounting to subtlest vigils kept in the way wind … Continue reading
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