Tag Archives: childhood

Interiority Complex

Posted on December 29, 2017 by John Biscello

Childhood is an ongoing historical fiction that changes based on who you are when you’re examining it. Who you are, in certain periods and chapters in your life, determines what you’re childhood is. Was would imply that childhood is fixed … Continue reading →

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Glow

Posted on December 25, 2017 by John Biscello

Excerpt from No Man’s Brooklyn, novel-in-progress. The coke parties were my favorite. It was when everyone was happiest. Everyone usually meant my mother, father, and their friends, Tony and Dina. My mother would tell me—Tony and Dina are coming … Continue reading →

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Levitation

Posted on December 13, 2017 by John Biscello

Excerpt from No Man’s Brooklyn, novel-in-progress. Anya and I were seated on the rubber mat in the front hallway. We had been playing marbles. Or rather our own version of marbles, which we called Marble Mash. After having … Continue reading →

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Kingdom

Posted on November 9, 2017 by John Biscello

In childhood’s kingdom, grace-slicked glee and romp– winter moon watching.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged childhood, children, fun, hill, John Biscello, joy, kingdom, moon, poem, Poetry, sledding, snow, Winter, woods, zeal | Leave a comment

In Love and War

Posted on October 8, 2017 by John Biscello

I dumped all my G.I. Joes out of the shopping bag and onto the pavement of the driveway. I separated the good guys from the bad guys, and then arranged them in specific positions. Before initiating a battle, or an … Continue reading →

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Carousel

Posted on September 27, 2017 by John Biscello

Spiritual keys? Horses circling Childhood’s glee to enter heaven.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged carousel, childhood, festival, haiku, Heaven, John Biscello, play, poem, Poetry, spirit, sunlight, Taos, tio vivo | Leave a comment

Legend

Posted on August 15, 2017 by John Biscello

Summer in Brooklyn, hydrant dreaming in graffiti– legends of childhood.

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Proof

Posted on July 9, 2017 by John Biscello

With the grave mortal nearness that only distance can bring, we enter the bruised, secret heart of our childhood, a stalker’s negative proof, slow-burned to exposure and fade.

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The Well

Posted on June 18, 2017 by John Biscello

Excerpt from Nocturne Variations When Piers was six she fell into a well. The well was abandoned and no longer had any water in it. If there would have been water in it, Piers would have drowned. Sometimes she’d imagine … Continue reading →

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Childhood’s End?

Posted on June 11, 2017 by John Biscello

Childhood, as a static port or fixed constellation, remains an ongoing historical fiction, in which small deaths, consigned to witnesses, inevitably breed the shadows of regeneration.

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