Station

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

Through a gate darkly,

semblance of lives, burning time–

Tokyo nocturne.

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Bicycle

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

Heaven’s bike country

where wheels are always turning

to leaven grounding.

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Way Station

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

Metaphors underscore

every moment of passage–

For example,

we being guests upon this earth

but briefly, solidly imagined

as entities before dissolving

into blurs, en route to fading,

among the gusty corteges of mass transit.

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Detour

Posted on October 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

In a world of blue,

you’ve been through it, haven’t you?

Scraped deep to beauty.

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Less, More

Posted on October 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

Intimacy bred and cultivated

by narrowest confines

is the progenitor

and best advocate

for imagination’s nubile foreplay

in limitless spaces

dreamed up in real time.

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Weather Report

Posted on October 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

Satiated want

of rain kissing ground open to

blurred trysts with strangers.

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Stopover

Posted on October 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

In the fast season

of love hotels lusting cast

melding prefers dark.

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It Makes You Wonder

Posted on October 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

People who vanish,

where exactly do they go?

Thin air holds secrets.

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Observance

Posted on October 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

Streets,

vivid in character

and starred in the calm lore

of desolation and subtext,

train the wanderer’s interest

to stop, notice, gaze

deeply at or into causes

warming us to the effects

through which we marvel

at curiously intimate lengths.

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Dispatch

Posted on October 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems.

Scent of coming rain,

accompanied by silence–

Solitude holds sway.

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