Category Archives: Poetry

Love and Wonderwheeling in a Time of Corona

Posted on March 23, 2020 by John Biscello

I’m not going to lie. From a solipsistic perspective and point of view, it’s been pretty damned sweet. Nowhere to be, no timeclocks clogging and vicegripping the rhythms, movements and pulse of each day’s choiceless unfolding, an unflagging sense of … Continue reading →

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Edge-point

Posted on March 22, 2020 by John Biscello

Sometimes, you’ve got to stand at the liminal edge, equal parts trespass and yield, your entire life a fragile ceremony of plunge and arc, respiring within spells of wonder.

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Visitation Rites

Posted on March 21, 2020 by John Biscello

Above all else, (she told me, her smile a glowing sickle) dignity and grace, for each and every soul on this planet, no one above, no one below, and everything I mean everything you truly need to know you’ve already … Continue reading →

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Devotional

Posted on March 20, 2020 by John Biscello

Remember me to the ease of light, its pause and passage, we are not long for this earth, which swallows us, and our lovetagged bones, as a matter of natural course and radical recomposition, all the gifts, and hopes unwound … Continue reading →

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Processing Claims

Posted on March 20, 2020 by John Biscello

Note to metamorphosizing self: every cocoon quivers and trembles, every process of change brings with it a new set of keys, and claims, every slumber implicitly contains the charge of wakefulness, and every grief minnows within a sea of holy … Continue reading →

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The Shrining

Posted on March 16, 2020 by John Biscello

Grace-note to self: Make a malleable shrine out of everything, everything, and trust that reverence is astoundingly radical in what it will include as sacred and profound– there are no limits to this, build malleable shrines, like a child mating … Continue reading →

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Still Life w/ Wonder

Posted on March 16, 2020 by John Biscello

Wherever I am, adrift and wonderwheeling, the lay of dreams, still.

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Know What I Mean?

Posted on March 16, 2020 by John Biscello

“I don’t know” might be the three most powerful and talismanic words after: “I love you.” They are some of the truest finest words, though they often get a bad rap, or are maligned as weak, ineffectual, lacking in the … Continue reading →

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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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Hand Me a Tissue

Posted on March 15, 2020 by John Biscello

It became known as the time of the Great Wipe-Out, when, within days, toilet paper grew endangered, and then became extinct, the dodo or passenger pigeon of spool-rolled tissue, and people, with unwiped bums and infant-style rashes, seized up and … Continue reading →

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