Tag Archives: cemetery

Love and Death

Posted on February 8, 2024 by John Biscello

The branch of the tree reaching down. It reaches down to graze the time-scarred headstone, to caress it. Could this be … a secret love story, a love story with no history, or with a cortege of history, spanning many … Continue reading →

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In the Company of Solitude, Vol. 3

Posted on January 18, 2024 by John Biscello

This volume features shrines and cemeteries, and a visit to Ryokan’s hut.

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video | Tagged cemetery, japan, kyoto, montage, niigata, photography, poem, Poetry, Ryokan, sado island, shrine, Spoken Word, tokyo, Video | Leave a comment

Faces

Posted on October 13, 2023 by John Biscello

Symmetry, like water, finds its own level, enabled by many nodes of manifest grace, from cheerful stone to worn velveteen faith.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged buddhas, cemetery, faith, japan, jizo, plots, poem, portrait, rabbit, sado island, shrine, temple | Leave a comment

Flicker

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We are here, but briefly, finite exhales threaded to infinite digressions, nowhere and now here minding a slip of the tongue, a merciful spell of passage shedding lightly to no known ends.

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Nuptials

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Here, a plot of overgrown grass and conjugal motives– A desirously bowing limb decked out in pink and green, caressing the time-darkened stone of one who has passed from now to now-again… The enduring portrait … Continue reading →

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Portal

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A most gorgeous, delicate, tenuous tenor of web, embroidered with translucent beads of morning-cut rain, this the ephemeral lens through which to view a landscape, a scene, quarter-notes of a dream, or dreaming itself pinned … Continue reading →

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Elegy for the Living

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Out of the world’s slow unseen turning, a darkly candid limb photobombs the dead, en route to heaven’s extended mouth of silence– The living, below, crossing gravely their own secret vigils, never witness the lancing … Continue reading →

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Elegy

Posted on September 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Time out a cemetery plotted on higher ground overlooking the railroad tracks crisscrossing bouts of traffic houses accounting for lives lived in shuttered flashes the dead amounting to subtlest vigils kept in the way wind … Continue reading →

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Fare

Posted on August 25, 2023 by John Biscello

At the elevated cemetery near the railroad tracks the silent Buddha presides unerringly over the ghosts faring passage to no known ends.

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Web

Posted on August 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We, lucent beads of rain, clinging indefinitely to a spider’s web— the climate of ephemera.

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