Category Archives: Artwork

Childhood’s Edge

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

Estranged, yet aloft, in a world her vision sculpts– Adulthood far off. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Leaf

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

 A single leaf,solitary, unattached, at homein space, feral puckerseizing upon glass,a lonely kissmoist to the crunch. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Moment in Time

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

Can you hear, the cobbled morning streetsgathering in thick coarse handsthe staccato clang of hoovesand thin gray voicesarising from the ghostsof peoplecaught in a sudden sonata?Can you not hear,the distance of bones,calling upon lightin an unremembered flicker? Photo by Josef … Continue reading →

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Wheelbarrow

Posted on October 16, 2020 by John Biscello

Consideringthe slopesof noble toiland grave matter,so much dependsupon a soiledwheelbarrow. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Apple

Posted on October 16, 2020 by John Biscello

The apple doesn’t beg to be loved, it keeps still, appling to the utmost, as rain and sunlight seep into the gravity of its core. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Devotional

Posted on October 16, 2020 by John Biscello

Remember me to the ease of light, its pause and passage, we are not long for this earth, which swallows us, and our lovetagged bones, as a matter of natural course and radical recomposition, all the gifts, and hopes unwound … Continue reading →

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Where To?

Posted on October 16, 2020 by John Biscello

As the steps narrowed toward a terrible totemic infinity she realized that foreboding hailed from a gothic lineage backlit by a fathomless source. #65 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Testament

Posted on October 15, 2020 by John Biscello

Kettled by mass and slow-building infinity, solitude begs nothing of stone and receives a woman through to which to flesh out its lone, fretted hymn and testament. #64 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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First and Last Steps

Posted on October 15, 2020 by John Biscello

It was an option, one that promised an ending— The steps seemed endless. #63 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Star

Posted on October 15, 2020 by John Biscello

There was never going to be any show, she knew that. Yet she fed on the light to counteract an unappeasable hunger, to star where the emptiness reamed darkest. #62 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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