John Biscello

The girl in the chair

is no longer the girl in the chair,

she is neither here nor there,

she is always and forget-me-not,

soul-spray and glacial uproar

causing a siege,

she is the spidery patterns

of her exploded heart,

woven in to the ritual symmetry

of a fibrous arc,

where a girl once sat,

once upon a time, forever.

(Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)