Category Archives: Artwork

Transformation

Posted on March 30, 2020 by John Biscello

There are times when it is necessary for the body to become its own cradle, a nest-fed rocking and grave trembling toward the loam of ceremony and siege, and while transformation isn’t easy, if you listen closely, tender ear to … Continue reading →

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Starfucking

Posted on March 29, 2020 by John Biscello

It was driving me crazy. I couldn’t stand the teasing anymore, the eternal seductiveness, so I fabled right through the roof and into the capacious night-sky to be with the stars, those luminous coquettes and avatars of celestial elegance, on … Continue reading →

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Breathing Ground for Phoenixes

Posted on March 24, 2020 by John Biscello

There are baby phoenixes burning inside my lungs. They want to grow into their deaths and fiery unabated splendor, want to consume the ash-cake coronating their birth-days, which matches abolition to symmetry. I am being asked, no forced to open … Continue reading →

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Moodscape

Posted on March 17, 2020 by John Biscello

Down a lighted alley. From The Jackdaw and the Doll. Illustration by Izumi Yokoyama.

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Come Rain or Come Shine

Posted on March 17, 2020 by John Biscello

  Illustration from The Jackdaw and the Doll. A fable about love, compassion and the magic of storytelling, presently being illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama.    

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Pascal’s Dog

Posted on March 16, 2020 by John Biscello

In this room, alone, a calling to intimate true worlds beyond veils.  

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City of Velvet Fog

Posted on March 11, 2020 by John Biscello

Lamplit alley in the City of Velvet Fog. From The Jackdaw and the Doll.  

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The Shroud

Posted on March 11, 2020 by John Biscello

K’s personal “Boogeyman”: The Shroud. From The Jackdaw and the Doll.    

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The Storyteller

Posted on March 11, 2020 by John Biscello

Page from The Jackdaw and the Doll, a fable I wrote, which is being illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. Inspired by a story about Franz Kafka.    

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The Gospel According to Heart

Posted on February 14, 2020 by John Biscello

Become your own valentine. Carve your initials in the soft yielding bark of your rooted hidden self, dwell there, with choice tenderness swelling the boundaries of your troubadour heart. Become true to your own basking, to the wonder-wheeling molecular bond … Continue reading →

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