Tag Archives: devotion

Inspiration’s Track

Posted on October 26, 2020 by John Biscello

Inspiration is not a matter of chance, or waiting, or a magic spell that demands bated breath and fretted suspension— it is the fact that you pick up a pen, your fingers growing warm and intimate with its weight and … Continue reading →

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The Writing Life

Posted on September 25, 2020 by John Biscello

These are the tools of my trade. I have written in spiral-bound notebooks, college-ruled, for a long time. They are always of varying colors. Red, yellow, blue, purple, black. Never green. I write with a Zebra F-402 ballpoint pen, black … Continue reading →

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Coils

Posted on September 8, 2020 by John Biscello

To caper at the edge, where the seething lyric happens, poetry with slits and fast teeth, where the hours of phenomena are boiled and reduced to a single quivering instant, an umbilical knot of light upon tenderest scraps and coils.

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The Greatest Job on Earth

Posted on August 31, 2020 by John Biscello

So much depends upon a red spiral notebook opened to a blank page, beside a pen’s barest volition to longing, within silence’s meted reign.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged devotion, John Biscello, love of writing, poem, Poetry, The Calling, the craft, willkiam carlos williams remixed, word-pray | Leave a comment

The Girl of My Stars

Posted on June 29, 2019 by John Biscello

I practice my grief, I refine it, for when you are gone, for when I am gone— my love for you is reachless, meaning for so many years I carried vagrant distances within me, or they carried me, bated and … Continue reading →

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Her

Posted on June 16, 2019 by John Biscello

She, the mystery, to whom I turn toward, falling, with light in my eyes.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged day at the beach, devotion, haiku, John Biscello, my love, oregon coast, tribute to all things sweet | Leave a comment

Room Service

Posted on June 4, 2018 by John Biscello

Love, in its ripest season and deepest proof, does not steal or seize your breath, but rather brings more oxygen and room in which to breathe.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged breath, devotion, John Biscello, love, oxygen, poem, season, space, spirit | Leave a comment

Doll

Posted on March 4, 2018 by John Biscello

She keeps strict vigil over Childhood in action, every fragrance and nuance, every lost tooth and blown-out birthday candle, every romp in the grass and Goliath slain, she keeps conscious watch, so later, when the box and the dark come … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged child, childhood, devotion, doll, girl, John Biscello, love, playmate, poem, Poetry, real, toy | Leave a comment

Scripture

Posted on February 19, 2018 by John Biscello

To be swallowed, wordless, as the worst you always feared turns lighted proof into lasting scripture.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged craft, devotion, John Biscello, language, literature, love, passion, scripture, words | Leave a comment

Anya at Night

Posted on February 8, 2018 by John Biscello

Late summer. Anya and I are on a walking tour of the park at night. The 40oz. bottles of Olde-E we are carrying are concealed inside brown bags. We detour at the playground, where Anya plants herself on … Continue reading →

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