Tag Archives: home

Innocent When We Dream

Posted on October 4, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems The longing for peace in loving sync with repose– The softest route home.

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Measure

Posted on September 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We all must take it, the long slow measured walk home– Be kind in passing.

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Vagrant

Posted on October 23, 2022 by John Biscello

Near to the bone warming and wildly grazing in solitude not lonely but rather alone in the company of words stories voices enabling vagrancy within most cherished intimacies rooting me home.

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Sanctuary

Posted on December 1, 2020 by John Biscello

“It is on the plane of the daydream and not on that of facts that childhood remains alive and poetically useful within us. Through this permanent childhood, we maintain the poetry of the past. To inhabit oneirically the house we … Continue reading →

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Homing Device

Posted on October 7, 2019 by John Biscello

The soul doesn’t calculate, it syncs itself to the legend of its origins, the glyphic runes and white-hot bones of constellational remains, where we, in costumed exile, linger and tow the fasting freight of dreams, upon which our lives are … Continue reading →

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And the Chairs Watched Silently

Posted on April 15, 2019 by John Biscello

An awful rowing, this sense of going nowhere, with home the fool’s goal. (Artwork by Giorgio di Chirico)

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Candles

Posted on March 16, 2018 by John Biscello

One for each of us, happy born-day, dear sister– Beyond human reach. (Artwork by Dorothea Tanning)

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Porchlight

Posted on January 2, 2018 by John Biscello

The porchlight in one’s personal heaven is always on, solace through staid aureole for orphans wandering heartsick in the dark.

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Burn

Posted on November 13, 2017 by John Biscello

The out of womb blues, torch song on code red alert– Slow burning for home.

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Cradle

Posted on October 29, 2017 by John Biscello

Fearful symmetry, the shape of deep, fragile love– Winter’s cradle, stirred.

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