Tag Archives: family

Rites

Posted on October 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems Down by the river, a boy and his grandfather– Soft grass grows through stone.

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Full Moon Rising

Posted on December 21, 2021 by John Biscello

Howling, to contract space for deeper emptying, to swallow moons whole.

Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry | Tagged cosmos, coyote, family, haiku, howl, pen and ink, poem | Leave a comment

Woven

Posted on April 12, 2019 by John Biscello

There once was a spider, gothic in temperament, who swallowed a cage containing your mother’s bones and the emptiness you craved; fasting on silence, your teeth darkened and grew sharp, while your hands, subject to course, fashioned the strictest symmetry … Continue reading →

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Fruit

Posted on May 18, 2018 by John Biscello

(Story from Freeze Tag.) L & S was a candy store and newsstand located on the corner of 60th St. and 18th Ave. L & S, which stood for Louie & Son, was owned by Louie Varinella: a burly, slightly … Continue reading →

Posted in Prose, Uncategorized | Tagged Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, family, fear, fiction, Freeze Tag, John Biscello, love, stories, urban | Leave a comment

Marvel

Posted on April 23, 2018 by John Biscello

As a child, the thinnest greenest wisps of air held tiny totemic figures of me, carved from sheer terror, aloft, and I pretended, o how I pretended to be the biggest strongest bravest boldest of them all, a clown-saint crossing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged childhood, circus, courage, dream, family, fantasy, fear, imagination, John Biscello, poem, spirit | 2 Comments

Empty, Full

Posted on March 27, 2018 by John Biscello

Howling, to contract space for deeper emptying, to swallow moons whole. (Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

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Sitcom

Posted on March 19, 2018 by John Biscello

In Episode 12 of Epic Distortions, the dog begs, canned applause. (Artwork by Dorothea Tanning)

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dog, dorothea tanning, family, haiku, John Biscello, painting, poem, sitcom, surreal | Leave a comment

Paper Trail

Posted on February 26, 2018 by John Biscello

Completed draft of my new novel, No Man’s Brooklyn. A return to childhood, to the source of ghosts, to Brooklyn roots.

Posted in Prose, Uncategorized | Tagged book, childhood, completion, draft, dysfunction, family, ghosts, John Biscello, literature, love, no man's brooklyn, novel, Prose, story | 3 Comments

Super Hero

Posted on February 23, 2018 by John Biscello

(Excerpt from No Man’s Brooklyn.) I was six when I found out I’d never become a superhero. We were in the kitchen. Me, my mother, and father. My father’s hand was around my mother’s throat. He had a … Continue reading →

Posted in Prose, Uncategorized | Tagged Brooklyn, childhood, dysfunction, family, fear, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, novel, Prose, story, super-hero | Leave a comment

Grandfather

Posted on January 21, 2018 by John Biscello

The only time I had ever seen my grandfather cry was also the first time I had ever seen an adult blatantly lose touch with reality. His first wife, my grandmother, Angelina, had died when I was five. She … Continue reading →

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