Claim for the Meek

Posted on January 23, 2025 by John Biscello
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Immigration Laws

Posted on January 23, 2025 by John Biscello
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Directions Home

Posted on January 20, 2025 by John Biscello

Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Carl Jung walk into a bar in heaven…

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Origin Story

Posted on January 17, 2025 by John Biscello

Rending the cosmos,
to midwife its own star-seed,
to papoose night-bloom.

(Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

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First Cut

Posted on January 17, 2025 by John Biscello

Hard to move forward,
when bound to what’s gone–
She bought a new pair
of industrial scissors.

(Installation by Izumi Yokoyama)

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Turn Turn Turn

Posted on January 17, 2025 by John Biscello

Each spring they return,
bound to renew small wonders–
Innocent by turns.

(Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

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Year of the Snake

Posted on January 17, 2025 by John Biscello

Night swallowing its
own tale of snake swallowing
its own tail of night.

(Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

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Seer

Posted on January 17, 2025 by John Biscello

How little they know,
of her flights beyond reason–
Her world, winged, widens.

(Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

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I Don’t Wanna Work on Daddy’s Farm No More

Posted on January 17, 2025 by John Biscello

Nesting, she brooded
on the future of free range–
No claims to hold her.

(Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

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Disintegration (The Cure)

Posted on January 17, 2025 by John Biscello

No sitters to tend,
solvent to its own winter–
If these floors could talk.

(Installation by Izumi Yokoyama)

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