John Biscello

Some time-tested facts:

1. Every shadow

courts its own double,

its own set of fractures.

2. Make-up,

and its composite symmetry

of masks

turn, at day’s end,

to sidereal flakes

of ash.

3. Your true face

was printed in heaven,

minted

and proofed there,

a template profused in light

and absolute mercy.