Category Archives: photography

Strangers

Posted on August 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We are all pretending here. Hoping not for the best but for not the worst to claim unsettle or overtake us. The young girl in the rented summer kimono taking a selfie with the misty … Continue reading →

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Passage

Posted on August 10, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. If only in trespasses and glimmers, if only the passages within possessed lasting value— What is that thing, at the edge of waking, that thing without agenda or the burden of always moving freight?

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Forgotten Temple

Posted on August 9, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Moss-carpeted stone steps leading up to the forgotten temple, fewer and fewer guests paying their respects to these hallowed grounds, a song of stately decay, of bones and overgrown grass, a rusted bell tolling absence … Continue reading →

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Moon River

Posted on August 8, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. To engage the intimacy of distance one must attend from within the agency of absence to sensual contact.

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Portrait in Red

Posted on August 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the hushed expectant stillness of red, the wall waited for the day it would no longer have to hold the girl back or up, waited patiently for blue to pick up where she left … Continue reading →

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Web

Posted on August 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We, lucent beads of rain, clinging indefinitely to a spider’s web— the climate of ephemera.

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Cell

Posted on August 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the loneliness of night she stares at her cell phone thinking about her next customer not thinking about them at all numb wondering about her high school friends what they are doing right now … Continue reading →

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Process

Posted on May 17, 2023 by John Biscello

One of my most sweetly savored pleasures: a freshly printed manuscript.Completed at the Casa de Currier retreat (May 2023).

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Cowpunk

Posted on May 15, 2023 by John Biscello

Another track from the jukebox catalog of None So Distant. COWPUNKLast night you set my quizzical pompadour on fire. Tonight, baby, I’m yours, behind the shed, all slangy and lonesome, in the needle’s eye of a hell-bellied storm. We are … Continue reading →

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Bluegrass

Posted on May 13, 2023 by John Biscello

Music plays a significant role in both the construction and tone of None So Distant, with one of the sections, titled Jukebox, functioning as a mythical and conceptual music catalog. Below is one of the “songs” from Jukebox. BLUEGRASSOffbeat lonesome … Continue reading →

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