Category Archives: Artwork

Butter and Arson

Posted on October 6, 2020 by John Biscello

Perhaps, in a hundred years, none of this would matter— the man across the street would just be a man and not her husband holding hands with that bitch from 5-C who had the nerve to knock on their door … Continue reading →

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Steppingstone

Posted on October 6, 2020 by John Biscello

She had played dress-up to echo the life without— At twilight, she’d shed. #22 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Vertigo

Posted on October 6, 2020 by John Biscello

There were too many pieces to the puzzle, too many keen faults in the symmetry. She locked eyes with the darkened window of the building across the street, and when vertigo took the elevator down to meet her where she … Continue reading →

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Framework

Posted on October 6, 2020 by John Biscello

A well-ordered day, relative to the framing, which living betrayed. #20 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Runes

Posted on October 6, 2020 by John Biscello

Fall in the city. A building offers the glyphic runes of a tectonic language in relief that goes unnoticed by the woman who has just seen her lover listening to another woman closely. #19 from Untitled Film Poems Image by … Continue reading →

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The Double

Posted on October 6, 2020 by John Biscello

There was a staggered repeatability to her days which she counted upon for a semblance of security and rightness, so you can imagine her surprise when she looked across the street and saw a woman identical to her, same head … Continue reading →

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American Gothic

Posted on October 6, 2020 by John Biscello

A tableaux of modern gothic, modeling the claims of dying light– To go gently, or to rage within a facade of ice? #17 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Singe

Posted on October 5, 2020 by John Biscello

In a sense, you could call it a stay of execution, but that would be waxing operatic just to make the whole thing worth remembering. Still, he had groveled before your feet, while clutching at your shadow’s hem, begging for a … Continue reading →

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Crossbearing

Posted on October 5, 2020 by John Biscello

She, the heroine, in the still of her own life– Christ, how far to go? #15 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Fable

Posted on October 5, 2020 by John Biscello

The woman, fronting a fable, wondered– Am I the cause, or the effect? No answer forthcoming, she considered splitting, before she turned her back on herself and left. #14 from Untitled Film Poems Image By Cindy Sherman

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