Starseed

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John Biscello
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Rending the cosmos,
to midwife its own star-seed,
to papoose night-bloom.

 

(Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)
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Footfalls

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John Biscello
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Not a simple feat,
to follow one’s own footsteps–
I, me, her, repeat.

 

 

 

 

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If on a Winter’s Night…

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John Biscello
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In winter’s maw, snow,
flutters of feathery pecks–
kisses, melt to rash.

 

(Artwork by Hiroshige)
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Gertrude Stein

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John Biscello
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Matron saint of reps,
one word, next, again, the same–
Style, the modern rage.

 

(Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein)
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Veils

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello
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Succubus to self,
modeling Salome,
dance of the seven deadly
veils,
thinned,
to bare pleasure,
and visitation rites.
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Bone Dry

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello
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Those crisp autumn nights,
alone, with miles and miles of
thoughts worn to the bone.

 

(Painting by Edward Hopper)
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Red, Black

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello
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To paint a blood-sport,
matador, faring no bull–
dark, in need of stars.

 

(Artwork by Mark Rothko)
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Louise to the nth degree

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello
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Remember, love, there’s
more of me where I came from–
Frames cannot hold us.
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Arson

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello
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Committing arson,
five-alarm siren on screen–
Louise Brooks, how you burned.

 

 

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Chaplin, Keaton

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello
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Men, who took the fall,
to keep the world in stitches–
Clowning achievement.

 

(Film still from Limelight, the only film in which Chaplin and Keaton appeared together).

 

 

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