Tag Archives: God

Emily

Posted on August 31, 2017 by John Biscello

Under the table, mouse lifting crumbs to God’s lips– a banquet for two.

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Dylan Thomas

Posted on August 30, 2017 by John Biscello

He, master of waves, sang in his chains like the sea– awful row with God.

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Ecstasy 101

Posted on August 21, 2017 by John Biscello

True solar eclipse, when Teresa took the plunge of Love’s gilded spear.

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Silhouette

Posted on August 15, 2017 by John Biscello

Baring a life sentence of notes and text, the steady bow executes its awful rowing toward God in marginal silhouette.

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Riversong

Posted on July 16, 2017 by John Biscello

Show us where it is you’re dying, the silent ebb and roaring tides of dark, expose to us, with a scalpel’s exactitude, the finite lineage of your deepest wounds and locks, and we promise that the light’s searing of naked … Continue reading →

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Thursday’s Child

Posted on July 15, 2017 by John Biscello

Wrapped snugly in a blanket of godlight, Thursday’s child indwells the symmetry of tigers burning bright to leave tracks on empty.

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Arc

Posted on July 10, 2017 by John Biscello

Starstruck, and wrestling within mortal coils, God’s lucid fame overshadows the cast of our solitary arc.

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Wish You Were Here

Posted on July 6, 2017 by John Biscello

Send us postcards from your loneliest places, your fault-lines and secret rivets, send us words and we promise not to burn them, we promise that something of the ineffable will stick, as if a lasting thorn in God’s bruised paw.

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Film Treatment

Posted on March 26, 2017 by John Biscello

God in the small details, the Devil in the abstract— in between, Us, the stuff stars are made from, on the cutting room floor.

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Cloud Nine

Posted on February 15, 2017 by John Biscello

Dylan Thomas falls from his barstool in Heaven— God, tending bar, picks him up, turns to Job—Who am I to judge?

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