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Tag Archives: alchemy
Lasting Born
Once upon a time is a necessary mirage. Flesh born of lighted word and bones fulfilling myth. Stories are the means to endlessness. They go on and on. We go on and on carried along by stories carrying within them … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged alchemy, excerpt, myth, Poetry, Prose, story, storytelling
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Sound and the Furies
My novel, The Last Furies, was partly inspired by the life, legend and poetic reckoning of the Symbolist brat-prince, Arthur Rimbaud. As a hybrid work, that is both an endless remix of a novel and a sorcerer’s cryptic handbook, the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged alchemy, arthur rimbaud, fifth novel, language, play, Poetry, Prose, remixology, sorcery, symbolist poetry
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From the Sorcerer’s Handbook
Do not explain music Do not explain dreams the elusive penetrates everything You must know that everything rhymes —Wols There is something deeply comforting about this, deeply reassuring. Everything rhymes. A universe of correspondences, of sequential richness, metaphysical jazz. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, John Biscello, poesy, rhyme-scheme, sorcery, turning prose to jazz soup, universal musings, why not?
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Genius
The sea, as alchemist, storyteller, artist, and instant mythmaker all rolled into one, has no equal. Here we find an abstract shoreline flower, whipped up from silt and minerals and other Neptunal residue, and bearing a wellplaced stoneface of magnetic … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, Artwork, genius, John Biscello, myth, Poetry, sea, stone flower
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Alchemy
Lone gull, stops, listens, the gospel of alchemy– water turned to gold.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, beach, Gold, haiku, John Biscello, sea, sea gull
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Sylvia, Triptych
Perhaps, Miss Sylvia, if there had been more sand on your beach, more sea to wash away the dead skin of pallid thoughts, more moonstruck nights rattling close to your fingers as you typed out the country of your heart, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, Beauty, incantation, John Biscello, photos, poet, Poetry, speculation, Sylvia Plath, tragedy, triptych
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Drum
Drum over me God, I am water under the bridge, threaded with silk and sewn with bones flowing, undammed, into the percussive folds of a liquid body, my name and past ceded to babbles of foam upon a colossal, quivering … Continue reading
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