Tag Archives: dark

Cover Reveal

Posted on October 20, 2025 by John Biscello

Cover reveal for my sixth novel, No One Dreams in Color, which will be published by Unsolicited Press in April 2026. I am thrilled that the cover features the artwork of Linda Stojak, one of my favorite contemporary artists who creates … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater | Tagged april 2026, book, cover reveal, dark, fiction, haunting, linda stojak, Literary, no one dreams in color, noir, Publication, shadows, sixth novel, surreal | Leave a comment

Lost Highway

Posted on October 2, 2025 by John Biscello

From the Polaroid Noir series

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Theater, Uncategorized | Tagged blionde, Cinema, dark, mystery, noir, polaroid, slow burn, torch song, woman | Leave a comment

Others

Posted on September 12, 2025 by John Biscello

I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t hear myself in my head anymore. I was hearing someone else. This someone else was older, much older than me, and tired. Her words dragged, as if part of a funeral procession. Her voice … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged dark, fragment, grief, listening, mind, narrative, old and young, others, Prose, story, voice, words | Leave a comment

In the Dark

Posted on February 22, 2024 by John Biscello

If cinema is a tomb, then let us die watching. The angel over my shoulder is hunched, opaque, morphing. None of us ever leave behind the dark of the theater. We are here, always. Sanctuary, haven, enclave, respite, sitting tight … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged Cinema, dark, film, images, movies, novel in progress, Poetry, Prose, sanctuary, story, trance | Leave a comment

The Bride

Posted on February 20, 2024 by John Biscello

It is always exciting to provide an update when a project is nearing completion. We are putting the finishing post-production touches on our short film, THE BRIDE, and look forward to the next phase of birthing it into the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Theater, Uncategorized | Tagged bardo, bride, camera, Cinema, dark, experimental, filmshort, indiecinema, indiefilm, love and marriage, moviemaking, poem, solitude, somethingtwistedthiswaycomes, story, veils | Leave a comment

Storytellers

Posted on November 18, 2022 by John Biscello

Storytellers of different ilks different beats different leaks of internal graffiti yet the word always at the heart of it barrowing out into light what comes from shadowlands within. Stories within earshot as eavesdropped whispers Stories like moonshots catapulted with … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged dark, jazz, music, photo, Prose, story, storytellers, words | Leave a comment

Fireflies

Posted on July 24, 2022 by John Biscello

All these stories– Fireflies in a garden, on a moonless night.

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Daisy

Posted on April 8, 2019 by John Biscello

The daisy listens to the dark pressing inward– a mute, glistening.

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Fount

Posted on April 14, 2018 by John Biscello

I have heard her sing, lungs, founting with light, to braid dark hours into grace.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dark, fount, grace, haiku, John Biscello, Light, lungs, poem, singing, song | Leave a comment

Suitcases

Posted on March 11, 2018 by John Biscello

Traveling light, dark, baggage claimed, left behind, she ordered her life, simply, through metaphor and blithe repetitions, expecting very little in return. (Photo by Heather Ross)

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dark, heather ross, John Biscello, journey, Light, metaphor, photo, poem, suitcases, travel, woman | Leave a comment