Category Archives: Artwork

Gertrude Stein

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John Biscello

Matron saint of reps, one word, next, again, the same– Style, the modern rage.   (Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein)

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Red, Black

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello

To paint a blood-sport, matador, faring no bull– dark, in need of stars.   (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Jackson Pollock

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

  Ballet in a storm, one man’s kinetic forecast– You will know my name.

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Scissors

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Hard to move forward, she thought, when bound to what’s gone– She bought new scissors.   (Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

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Scent

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Suspicion assails, Why did he give this to me? The scent of a trail.   (Artwork by Paul Klee)    

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Night Moves

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Tree’s night-perm like fog, stars pining to get lost there– Long distance courtship.   (Artwork by Georgia O’ Keefe)

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Mark Rothko

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Rending light to fit an artist’s capacity to survive caste form.   (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Girl, Chair

Posted on March 20, 2018 by John Biscello

The girl in the chair is no longer the girl in the chair, she is neither here nor there, she is always and forget-me-not, soul-spray and glacial uproar causing a siege, she is the spidery patterns of her exploded heart, … Continue reading →

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Horizon

Posted on March 20, 2018 by John Biscello

Some silence, you see, is not golden, not really– long dark shadow cast.   (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Bridge

Posted on March 20, 2018 by John Biscello

Long ago, slowly crossing the bridge in winter– Footprints in fresh snow.   (Artwork by Hiroshige)

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