Movement from an Unfinished Solo

Posted on July 3, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #63
It was an option,
one that promised an ending—
The steps seemed endless.

 

(Photo by Cindy Sherman)

 

 

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Some Like It Hot

Posted on July 2, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #32
Some women
waited for men
to light their cigarettes
for them
but never her—
she, the one who netted
her own desire,
and blatantly committed
a most lovely heresy
by balancing
a small kernel of the moon
on her fingertips
until her cigarette
burned
and underscored
the legend of the woman
scorned as a witch
by men
who didn’t know what to make
of unclaimed fire.

 

(Photo by Cindy Sherman)
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Home and Away

Posted on July 2, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #40
She turned, obliquely,
to reframe her perspective–
Maybe one last chance?

 

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Film Treatment

Posted on July 2, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #22
She had played dress-up
to echo the life without–
At twilight, she’d shed.

 

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Framework

Posted on July 2, 2019 by John Biscello
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A well-ordered day,
relative to the framing,
which living betrayed.

 

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Any Given Moment

Posted on July 2, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #49
She paused, to reflect
upon how, in this house,
there would never be a shortage of glasses,
they’d never run out.
Forever, the company
of herself, absolished in the throes
of forgetting.

 

(Photo by Cindy Sherman)
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Set Design

Posted on July 1, 2019 by John Biscello
cindy #43
All the maidens
had gone extinct.
The debutantes too.
She found herself
in this place, alone,
a Bardo stage set
for a film
that would never be made
about women
who scorched revolution
into the earth
while kneading forgiveness,
for themselves, and the men,
who skirted the borders
of psychic endangerment.

 

(Photo by Cindy Sherman)

 

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Pillow Talk

Posted on July 1, 2019 by John Biscello
Cindy #52
Rumpled, with a sense of grave toil,
and casual slips of crucial error–
Was this what love meant,
or did? Could that be all?
The woman settled
into the shape of her day,
and pined for something remote
and unspecified,
a feeling, a place, anything
to keep her unmade and hoping.

 

(Photo by Cindy Sherman)
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Childhood’s Haunt

Posted on July 1, 2019 by John Biscello

cindy #38

As if in a dream,
or mottled gloam,
she found herself bailing
on the small needy child
with grotesquely long
tapered fingers,
she found herself leaving home
to an unmarked plot
and its numberless ghosts.

 

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Still Life w/ Cuckoos

Posted on June 30, 2019 by John Biscello
Meet Marilyn and James.
Film stills from Ballad of the Cuckoos.
Indiegogo campaign launching soon.
Stay tuned.

 

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