Tag Archives: dance

Hips Don’t Lie

Posted on September 16, 2025 by John Biscello

The hips don’t lie. They are the truth-telling giants, and the whistle-blowers transmitting through pirate radio. They are also the catacombs and weather satellites of one’s cumulative genealogy. When an old person falls and breaks their hip, it is not … Continue reading →

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Theme for a High School Dance

Posted on November 18, 2024 by John Biscello

There is a rumor that Laura Palmer is going to be at the dance. While you don’t know her personally, all you can think about is the exquisite mystique of her televised corpse, and how her voice, on a karmic … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged Cinema, dance, david lynch, high school, laura palmer, movies, Prose, resurrection, story, tv, Twin Peaks | Leave a comment

Casanova’s Memoirs

Posted on February 21, 2024 by John Biscello

The weevils chewing through the wall and burrowing into the hollows. Rot sets in. Yet I wake up and the sun is a perfect circle, a ball of fire, a kissing fool’s star. I smile. To hell with the weevils. … Continue reading →

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Bone Jig

Posted on November 11, 2022 by John Biscello

My mother’s bones. My mother’s bones resounding in my ears piercing my eardrums. Death rattle of the dusty gourd. Of the earth’s grief calling to us to restore. Calling upon us to become wardens attendants to vibrations crossing passages. To … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged bones, dance, dead can dance, excerpt, Maya Deren, mother, novel in progress, Prose, story, the dead, twilight, words | Leave a comment

Lucent

Posted on July 4, 2022 by John Biscello

Posted in Poetry | Tagged alchemy, dance, Light, lucent, poem, visions | Leave a comment

No Dominion

Posted on March 29, 2018 by John Biscello

It was about time, epitaph planned in advance– Will you dance with me?

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dance, death, Dylan Thomas, epitaph, gallow's humor, grave, haiku, immortality, John Biscello, life, poem | Leave a comment

Veils

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Succubus to self, modeling Salome, dance of the seven deadly veils, thinned, to bare pleasure, and visitation rites.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Cinema, dance, John Biscello, louise brooks, model, nude, photo, poem, salome, shoes, siren, succubus, veils | Leave a comment

Ghost Dance

Posted on March 8, 2018 by John Biscello

Thinning of the veils, ghost engaging girl to dance– No partner needed. (Photo by Anne Brigman)

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged anne brigman, dance, dream, girl, John Biscello, myth, photo, poem, silhouette, veils | Leave a comment

First Steps

Posted on February 21, 2018 by John Biscello

It is not about holding her perfect, just so, in a prescribed manner, but rather, can you slowpour your breath into one another’s hips and clefts, while swaying? It is the mutual pressing of scars together, a controlled friction that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged burn, dance, dream, intimacy, John Biscello, love, passion, poem, Poetry, romance, slow dance | 13 Comments

Measure

Posted on December 29, 2017 by John Biscello

A sense of removal raveled in intimacy and ghostly union, a sense of closeness achieved on the periphery where fools dance an impossible jig to fulfill absence.

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