Tag Archives: clouds

Night

Posted on September 7, 2025 by John Biscello

At night I go out, scorched and empty. I pool inside myself all day, every day, a sipping and flooding, and then I carry this out with me into the night. There is a hissing that I can hear out … Continue reading →

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No Dominion

Posted on October 25, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Umbrella ghosted by whoever held it last– Rain in the forecast.

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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 … Continue reading →

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How Many Miles?

Posted on October 20, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. There is no journey– Only myths in which we fit our lust to wander.

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Way

Posted on October 20, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Every crossing moves in step with homesickness for places unknown.

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Focus

Posted on October 19, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The world breaks daily to reform your perspective– Vision begets form.

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Absorbence

Posted on October 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Unimaginable grace brought in to powder the red noses of the disinherited meek lost in dreaming and sorrowful wake.

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Kites

Posted on October 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the cloud-papered volume of unending sky a pair of kites assume the pensive arc of commas giving due pause to the founting gulf of silence and daybreak.

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Ferry

Posted on October 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Aboard the ferry, man dreams he is a sea gull– Above, clouds wonder.

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Going

Posted on October 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In spaces between, we are supported to dream– Distance knows no bounds.

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