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Night at the Opera

Posted on April 29, 2019 by John Biscello

Is the monkey mind tethered to the man or to the box in which the man keeps his thoughts locked? Music plays, as a tin cup rattles its petition for change, and eveything continues, as is.

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Revolution

Posted on April 29, 2019 by John Biscello

Miller on his bike, joy riding through the cosmos– the lore of cycling.   (Photo: Henry Miller and his bike)  

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Window

Posted on April 29, 2019 by John Biscello

Withdrawal intends its own wan truth and fading– Twilight becomes her.   (Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, 1943)

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It’s a Kind of Magic

Posted on April 29, 2019 by John Biscello

Crafting from a wordless place, the Sorcerer’s stones became young girls trying to escape the grip of an audience that preyed on magic and cinema.   (Image by Maya Deren)

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Of Time and the River – John Biscello

Posted on April 29, 2019 by John Biscello

Short prose piece on Free Verse Revolution

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Origin Story

Posted on April 28, 2019 by John Biscello

The music stayed still, grew its own body to rapture and grieve, in concert with a species of veil crafted from small, rare birds and the meshes of patterned weeping.   (Image by Man Ray)

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Hers and Hers

Posted on April 28, 2019 by John Biscello

Never the same woman twice, reality assigns symmetry to fractures, while crossing infinite lengths in blurred pursuit of fated mending.

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Silent Night

Posted on April 28, 2019 by John Biscello

Start with the glacial base, the hunk of unforgiving crystal on which the tree is mounted, then trace the filigreed limbs of the tree, its shadow a twin belonging to the woman modeling Winter as a softly fringed species of … Continue reading →

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Now Showing

Posted on April 28, 2019 by John Biscello

Constellations pogo to the logic of spores mounting an art show protean in course and limnal uproar.   (Artwork by Chua ek Kay)

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Lost in Transit

Posted on April 28, 2019 by John Biscello

the morning after she realized the life she led was someone else’s.    

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