Category Archives: Artwork

Watchful

Posted on June 25, 2019 by John Biscello

Sometimes it goes without saying– a woman’s loss teased into vertical symmetry as memory assails from a lighted distance.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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What Did I Miss?

Posted on June 24, 2019 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.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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Lighting Scheme

Posted on June 24, 2019 by John Biscello

Illuminated, but with razors, the shadow found a face to give its cinematic debut a twist on types fitted to escape plans in small, forgotten rooms.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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Here Lies Everything

Posted on June 4, 2019 by John Biscello

Oh, those crazy Muses, existing well beyond the borders of logic and reason, their joyful disquiet relative to the epic savvy and hunger of dwarf stars, and harmonies sounded to mine the lyrical lore of what lies buried and forgotten … Continue reading →

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Ghost Story

Posted on June 4, 2019 by John Biscello

The turn of the screw, set her ghost to shivering– The blues became her.   (Artwork by Linda Stojak)

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Who Was She?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by John Biscello

In purgatory, the last of the debutantes, adrift, as if dreamed.   (Artwork by Linda Stojak)

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Thickening Plot

Posted on June 3, 2019 by John Biscello

The lessons were simple– Never take a bath in fast-drying cement, and never love a man who won’t do your back when everything hardens quickly.   (Photo by Heather Ross)

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Bathwater Blues

Posted on June 3, 2019 by John Biscello

I held out my hands, when you asked me to come clean– Sorry for the mess.   (Photo by Heather Ross)

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Holding Pattern

Posted on June 2, 2019 by John Biscello

Even now, it’s vague, how an image claims absence– Looking back, I freeze.   (Photo by Heather Ross)    

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Siren

Posted on June 2, 2019 by John Biscello

Grief embraces change through form, exploded to shape a sense of calling.   (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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