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Masks
Excerpt from a novel-in-progress: It was in the year _______, that a maskless society had ceased to exist. A decision was made by people who made decisions of that nature (yes, the masks, the decision-making, the proper authorities, all this … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged demasking is a crime, John Biscello, Masks, mirrors within, novel, Prose, reflection points, the faceless
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The Jackdaw and the Doll
In what has been an inspired harmonizing of words and art, and a storyscape richly carved out of light, shadows and dream-stuff, The Jackdaw and the Doll has been completed. This fable, penned by yours truly, and illustrated by pen-and-ink … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Artwork, children's book, fable, franz kafka, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, Prose, the jackdaw and the doll, winged wonder
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Taos Journal of Poetry and Art
I am honored to have two of my poems–“Anne Sexton” and “Sylvia Plath”–included in Issue #12 of the Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, which is now live. From the Mission Statement, by editor Robin Shawver: “This spring 2020, the world … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Artwork, John Biscello, New Mexico, Poetry, Publications, Taos, taos journal of poetry and art
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The Silence and Other Poems
“The Silence” and three other poems–“Into the Mystic,” “The New Romantics,” and “To the Lighthouse”–now appearing as a conceptual quartet in Riot Material.
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Press, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged John Biscello, new poetry, Publication, riot material, word to the mother, Word Up
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Tenor
The difference between I am here and I was here is delicately slight, and not really a matter of tense but rather one of plaited tenor and climate, in which degrees, separating our ghost from our dreams, keeps us shivering … Continue reading
Icy Hot
Between worlds, vying for merger, the reigning glacial celibacy of stars, and the marvelous frisson of pure mortal throb— Where you are not, find your ghost’s bluest breath of want upon a mirrored caste of longing.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged between worlds, John Biscello, passion peals, Poetry, ravish, these mortal claims, this cosmic world
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Sheer
By course of sheerness, our fragilest bits exposed– How the light gets in.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged double exposure, John Biscello, Poetry, revelations, sheer opening, vulnerable self
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Found Blue
We do not enter the bluest hours, they come upon us, tender fugue and gallows silk, where we, in blatant trembling sheerness, are revealed to ourselves as the bated wisps between air and perish.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged blue hours, course of revelations, deathly silk, John Biscello, poem, sheerness, softly now softly
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Cathedral
From the absolute hovel of unlettered ruins, a crabby shard, reflecting a tasseled badge of moonlight— this, the modest origins to ceremony and marvel, as she built an outlaw cathedral of self, in which she dwelled and worshipped, vagrantly hospitable … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged cathedral of self, dwelling within, ecstasies, harem of angels, into the blue again, John Biscello, Poetry
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