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Review of Raking the Dust on Book-Tastings

Posted on November 17, 2016 by John Biscello

Grateful for the appraisal & support, especially since I am seeking a new home for my orphan-child, after my publisher recently closed its doors. “And the award for Best Indie Read So Far goes to…..Raking the Dust by John Biscello. … Continue reading →

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Catalog

Posted on November 17, 2016 by John Biscello

The sea is the sea but it is also a sound recording of the sea, it is Memory, shroud and fathomless, and freighted with echoes. It is the case history of forgotten species and myths, the ghostlight of dead stars.

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Wraith

Posted on November 17, 2016 by John Biscello

In a brief lighted instance, a rending flicker, he measured and recalled, a rumpled and well-worn patch of dark velvet, sun-warmed, and touching the skin of teeth to Memory, he grieved her, fashioning haunt from thin fabled air.

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Duende

Posted on November 14, 2016 by John Biscello

“The duende . . . Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents; a wind with the odor … Continue reading →

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Disclosure

Posted on November 13, 2016 by John Biscello

In perpetual flirtation and basking courtship with Beloved, I, warming to petition and gospel, humbly sign my name, if only to ghost an echo channeling undisclosed remains.

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Beginner’s Yoga

Posted on November 13, 2016 by John Biscello

“The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.” — Shunryu Suzuki Lying on the mat, picking up with fresh ears a preschool earplay symphony– caw, bark, vroom, ding-ding.

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Bird’s Eye View

Posted on November 11, 2016 by John Biscello

(For Leonard Cohen) As the bird on the wire trills its last delicious electric notes, the vibrato hum begins to resound in Heaven.

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Endanger

Posted on November 11, 2016 by John Biscello

In the Beginning, when all was scrim and nostalgia to be, there was the Word, a dark sensual organism prefiguring Symbol, and in the mouths of babes desperate to dream aloud and chasten their hunt for meaning, the Word became … Continue reading →

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The Emperor’s New Robe

Posted on November 9, 2016 by John Biscello

What may, in the bristling long run, turn out to be a hooded blessing in disguise; that is, Hubris, Ego and Arrogance, as sickled agents of corrosion, Greek in scope and epic cinema, turn an Emperor’s new robe into a … Continue reading →

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Symmetry

Posted on November 8, 2016 by John Biscello

It is only when you learn how to tango like a crab along the sea’s mirrored edge, that language, as master to its own silence, hastens words to dance with the symmetry of intent.

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