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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.

Fare

Posted on August 25, 2023 by John Biscello

At the elevated cemetery near the railroad tracks the silent Buddha presides unerringly over the ghosts faring passage to no known ends.

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Set Course

Posted on August 24, 2023 by John Biscello

In the palm of shadows, at the rounded edge of wake, vanishing points emerge to blur and perpetuate the deeply dreamed course of our longings, all those ghosts called upon to fade.

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Quartet

Posted on August 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A silent quartet, facing the mottled reflections of lives, unrecognized, emptying into a pool of dreams, wandering without claim or respite.

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Still Life

Posted on August 23, 2023 by John Biscello

In our petitions for mercy repose is the standard by which we elicit the preferred company of grace.

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Slow Burn

Posted on August 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Time aloneleaves us smallcherished pleasuresthrough which our livesare gathered slowlyin momentsof favored ephemera.

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Wavelength

Posted on August 20, 2023 by John Biscello

Within the dark cradling weave of silence softly she tenders the stuff of dreams upon which my starry vigils are gently rounded.

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Liminal

Posted on August 20, 2023 by John Biscello

There are tunnels at the end of the light leading back to passages marking our long day’s journey into night.

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Sea Change

Posted on August 18, 2023 by John Biscello

At a distance, sea changes, while the wind sings an elegy for the effaced.

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Sanctum

Posted on August 18, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the humid haunt of vinyl heaven one man’s canary soul vaulting in quarter and half-notes slotted between rapier motes and circular motions of dreaming worn down end to end to play on.

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Updated Bio

Posted on August 17, 2023 by John Biscello

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, author, poet, playwright, perfomer and screenwriter, John Biscello, is the author of four novels–Broken Land, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, No Man’s Brooklyn–two volumes of poetry–Arclight, Moonglow on Mercy Street–a collection of stories, Freeze Tag–and an … Continue reading →

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