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Ghostprints

Posted on April 3, 2019 by John Biscello

Long before there was Adam’s itchy rib and Eve’s ruptured spleen there was a travesty of hands a transversal flowerbed of fngers reaching in jilted unsion to grasp not the meaning of God but rather the infinitely sweeping hem of … Continue reading →

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Rainy Day Concerto

Posted on April 2, 2019 by John Biscello

Hello, floating world, tilted by sudden downpour– In crossing, feet sing.   (Artwork by Hiroshige)

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The Fugitive

Posted on April 2, 2019 by John Biscello

One of these mornings, when the weather was different, more forgiving, she would catch up to herself, that fretful woman always just ahead, fifty to one hundred steps or so, hastening to avoid the rain-darkened woman always just behind her … Continue reading →

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Coupling

Posted on April 2, 2019 by John Biscello

Longing comes to know itself as a bushy plant straddling the mist-slicked head of a motionless bike, the soft conjoining tease of silhouettes banking on an anonymous night.   (Photo by Brassai)    

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Dinner’s Guess and Coming to Who

Posted on April 2, 2019 by John Biscello

Young man, get in this kitchen RIGHT NOW and clean up your mess, we have guests coming for dinner and what would they say if they saw a guitar aborting a knife into a drawer framed for murder? And where … Continue reading →

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Seven Ways of Looking at a Starry Horse

Posted on April 2, 2019 by John Biscello

Poem-art matrimony as part of the Poetry in Public Places Project.

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Book Giveaway

Posted on April 1, 2019 by John Biscello

In honor of National Poetry Month (and April’s Fool’s Day) I will be giving away ten digital copies of my poetry collection, Arclight, to the first ten respondees. To request a copy, email me: johnbiscello@gmail.com. Cheers, and in the immortal … Continue reading →

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George

Posted on April 1, 2019 by John Biscello

Monday, April 1st Went bowling with George last night. He refused to pick up the ball, just stood there, frozen, blank, his hands rsing toward his ears in a lullaby clasp as if he was planning on taking a nap. … Continue reading →

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Samsara and an Order of Fries

Posted on April 1, 2019 by John Biscello

Consider the alternative: an itinerant circus where headless chickens pilot aeroplanes and kamikaze into the swollen sides of whitewashed barns and people in city traffic function as belligerent seals honking until the moon has a breakdown and refuses to come … Continue reading →

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Shadowlands

Posted on April 1, 2019 by John Biscello

There was only so many chances one could be given. It was the law of averages, gambler’s physics, something. The woman he had left behind was the same as the one waiting inside. Dresses were funny that way. He wondered … Continue reading →

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