Category Archives: Poetry

Whispers

Posted on December 26, 2023 by John Biscello

Whisper, I want to be inside you, to your lover, when she is in the middle of a parent-teacher conference. Whisper, between your thighs I found blue lightning, to your lover, when she is driving in congested traffic on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Ghost Story

Posted on December 26, 2023 by John Biscello

Understand clearly that you are a ghost haunting your own life. Do not seek an exorcist, nor a mirror. Do not try and revise or cure your condition. Put on a white sheet, cut two slits for eyeholes, and wander … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Telegram

Posted on December 24, 2023 by John Biscello

Send a telegram from a future perspective to someone who resembles you in present time. In the telegram, tell the person resembling you who and what you would like to become. Assure them that this is not blackmail or psychic … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Alignment

Posted on December 24, 2023 by John Biscello

Conceive of your body as the size of a planet. Notice that your body is inhabited by many things, each unique and unrepeatable in its design and imprint. Shrink yourself down to the size of an amoeba. Observe the uniquely … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Before Beauty

Posted on December 23, 2023 by John Biscello

Count the number of wrinkles in the night sky. Count the number of wrinkles in the ocean. Tell the sky it is old and beautiful. Tell the ocean it is old and beautiful. Write a note saying—I am old and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Directory

Posted on December 23, 2023 by John Biscello

Pick a name at random from a phone book. Let’s say Shultz. Pick a second name at random from a phone book. Let’s say Espinoza. Call Schultz and pretend to be Espinoza. Call Espinoza and pretend to be Schultz. Then … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Measure

Posted on September 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We all must take it, the long slow measured walk home– Be kind in passing.

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Corner

Posted on September 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Slices of lives quartered and drawn into fugitive impressions and fleeting spells, the footfalls of strangers passing, of ghosts echoing blurs of transit among street corner edges– In a world of ceaseless turning, distance quickens … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Slow Take

Posted on September 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The world disappears in the space between first sip and still life, adrift.

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nighwatch

Posted on September 25, 2023 by John Biscello

His native habitat was a window by moonlight. He would crouch there, gauzed in night mist, his fingers always poised upon his chin, as if rigging speculation, or some unresolved quandary, and he’d find me, writing at the kitchen table, … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment