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Tag Archives: art
Burning Down the House
Grateful to be a contributor to the recently released anthology: As the World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad (Indie Blue Publishing). The women who spearheaded this project continue to create platforms in the publishing world … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged anthology, art, as the world burns, book, Indie Blue Publishing, international, Poetry, Prose, Publication, we are the world
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New Release: Passage of Days
I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay for Passage of Days, an exquisite collection of photographs by world-renowned photographer, Pierre-Toutain-Dorbec. Soon to be released. PASSAGE OF DAYS: Through a lens starkly, undertake a photographic odyssey into the sun-baked … Continue reading
Still Life W/Selfie
(From Houses of a Crystal Muse, Wild Embers Press, December 2019) How I, my ego-fiend-self, craves and wishes and desires to take ultimate credit for the words and poems attaching themselves to their mortal host, John Biscello, thinly grafted to … Continue reading
Moon River, Winter Remix
Ribbed, solitary leaf, cradled in frozen canvas, stray comma to the rivered language of glacial moon, that is where I find her, my love, spreading pure as the music of first snow.
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Tagged art, John Biscello, leaf, love poem, music, snow, Winter
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Hands
This is the text which inspired the story I performed in a Story Slam a couple of years back. The theme was “Risk.” Here’s a video clip of the presentation (sorry, it’s sideways, but then again, so am I). One … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged art, courage, dreams, imagination, John Biscello, love, passion, storyslam, storytelling, Taos
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Plaything
Fictionalize me, martyr me to your crosses and lost causes, give me a form by which my double can register touch, and seeds of desire, twitching and sputtering in the blue flames of fabulous opera, make me the husky baritone … Continue reading
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Tagged art, creation, Desire, erotic, John Biscello, plaything, poem, sensual, words
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Burble
To pour, unrestrained, Beauty in her cups, and burbling fount, a lasting refrain.
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Tagged art, Beauty, burble, expression, fount, John Biscello, poem, Poetry
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Torch Song
Nature does not express opinions, she asserts herself with whatever force is necessary to explode the billion screaming hearts tendered from her wellsprung artistry. Nature does not engage in philosophy or debates, she, unbridled, the husbandless pagan, teems and throbs … Continue reading
I See Myself
I always saw the humanity behind his thick-lidded eyes, the small child, begging for a banquet of golden crumbs to appease the motherache churning in his heart and stomach. A thousand lions pitted against a studded chainsmoking beergutted gladiator, I … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Beauty, expression, father, John Biscello, love, poem, redemption, son, soul
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Voracity
She, baring teeth lodged in the jaws of dreamlife, grazes on symmetry and swaths of fire, this diet, recommended in due measures for dreamers only, trades in the manna of satisfaction for whole-bellied hunger, a voracious reckon and spiritual art … Continue reading
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Tagged art, diet, dreamlife, dreams, expression, John Biscello, love, poem, Stars
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