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Picasso Who?

Posted on August 5, 2018 by John Biscello

No painter required, just a door, and running blues– Fuck museum walls.    

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Sea Change

Posted on August 5, 2018 by John Biscello

There is only so long a mermaid can linger on land before some collector with a fetishistic bent, and sheer volumes of emptiness matching his compensatory cravings, renders her a mute and immobile object of worship, not only for his … Continue reading →

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Romance

Posted on August 3, 2018 by John Biscello

These short forevers, spanning the length of shadows– lasting first kisses.

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The Messenger

Posted on August 2, 2018 by John Biscello

To conceive of Death, as an uninvited guest– His gift, your life, lived.

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Knock Knock

Posted on August 2, 2018 by John Biscello

I came to a door, where once it was only wall– Dreams turn up in time.

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Buddha’s Ninth Life

Posted on August 2, 2018 by John Biscello

Fasting on patience, the cat became enlightened– No reason to leap.

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How Stones Love

Posted on August 1, 2018 by John Biscello

Almost as if the stones, a bundle of prehistoric easter eggs,  and petrified sweeps and flourishes of gondoliering motion, were modeling poetry, an implacable ode and incalculable sonnet to the sea, whose flagrant tempest, bound to strict meter, abrades the … Continue reading →

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Orpheus in Mexico

Posted on August 1, 2018 by John Biscello

Wherever there is a time-scarred stone stairwell, there is the wandersick soul of Orpheus, forever walking backwards in search of his Eurydice, her heart the lost season in a hell of imagined distance.

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It’s All Greek to Me

Posted on August 1, 2018 by John Biscello

Katabasis, Greek for downgoing or descent– Orpheus, evinced.

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Cinemagical

Posted on July 31, 2018 by John Biscello

Running everywhere, wildly, excited to fill his bucket with moonlight, the young, eager disicple turned to his mentor and said, with a crushing sense of zealous overwhelm– But it’s everywhere! So so much yet none of it stays in the … Continue reading →

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