Movie Still

Posted on July 10, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #56
Could they see through her?
Her want of glamour preserved,
though absence laid claim?

 

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Travelogue

Posted on July 10, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #44
She never did go anywhere,
you know?
Some ghosts
become totemic stand-bys
for the lives they never led,
gloaming potentialties
that passed, in solemn wisp,
from dream to dream,
then fade.

 

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Panoply

Posted on July 10, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #14
Consternation,
from multiple perspectives—
Someone must decide.

 

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Dusting

Posted on July 10, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #8
You don’t know
where the nights go,
what apparitions
with monstrous appetites
do the swallowing.
It is a mystery,
soundless, unsigned.
But what remained
in the whorish glare
of daytime
were all the undigested bits,
the flesh creeping
with prickly beads
of sun
like scabs baked
in magma
and hazy unremembered
regret.

 

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Following

Posted on July 10, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #27b
To become a vagrant
to the territory
of one’s own self,
requires the right kind of corridor,
an elliptical sense of fugue,
and footfalls which softly echo
a stalker’s unmitigated pursuit.

 

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Ballad of the Cuckoos

Posted on July 9, 2019 by John Biscello
Our little-cuckoo-that-could is beginning to stir its wings. The pre-launch page for our Indiegogo campaign, which will launch in September, is now live. Please visit the page and subscribe to our email list (it’s free and easy) and follow the evolution of our film. This will help us generate momentum and get the energetic ball rolling, as we move forward with our inspired labor of love. Also, we would deeply appreciate it if you would consider sharing this page and helping us spread the word.
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Cuckoos

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Traces

Posted on July 9, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy # 33
The letters ran together,
a blur, and vicious assembly,
which forced her to comprehend
 an absence, with no prints to register.

 

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Under and Above

Posted on July 9, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #46
As a child,
they had tried to scare her
with stories of Jaws,
and other undersea dangers.
Her mother wanted her to be safe,
which meant keeping her as close to shore
as possible.
Now, out there, alone, bobbing,
she clearly understood
just how vast and unforgiving a mother
the sea was, or could be,
and how, by radical turn,
she had become the water baby,
unafraid to submerge.

 

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Folds

Posted on July 9, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy # 36
Backlit to claim form,
the shadow slipped over her
and bared its longing.

 

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At Present

Posted on July 9, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #39
Everything dissolved anyway,
was how she consoled herself.
She would do something,
she would plant yellow daisies
in the garden
first thing tomorrow morning,
yellow seemed appropriate, yes,
even though the idea
of morning
seemed far-off
and left her feeling
queasy and unsure.

 

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