Tag Archives: intimacy

Window for Two

Posted on August 9, 2022 by John Biscello

Do you plan to get up today Max? No Marge, you? I am up. You plan on staying up? No, just wanted a spot of tea. That’s very British of you. What is? A spot of tea . . . … Continue reading →

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Vouchsafe

Posted on November 19, 2020 by John Biscello

“Once it had been the other way around: one summer, while daydreaming a winter story, he had reached into the tall grass for a snowball, wanting to throw it playfully at the cat.” — Peter Handke, The Afternoon of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Poetry, Prose | Tagged imagination, intimacy, John Biscello, peter handke, poem, seasons | Leave a comment

Distances

Posted on April 5, 2020 by John Biscello

We matched distances— parallel tracks of chilled air, merging warm in touch.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged distance crossing, haiku, intimacy, John Biscello, merger, Poetry, touch, you gots to chill | Leave a comment

Shadowplay

Posted on January 20, 2020 by John Biscello

How lovely the metaphors that drop from your lips like feted pellets of rain, and yet lovelier still, the way their shadows leave warm wet stains wherever my skin opens to catch you.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged intimacy, intimate measures, it's always valentine's day, John Biscello, poem, the power of touch, the skin and teeth of metaphors | Leave a comment

Margin

Posted on April 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Beyond these margins, lies something that is yours, yes, an intimate claim.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged buried, claim, haiku, intimacy, John Biscello, mystery, poem, Poetry, soul, spirit, tender | 2 Comments

Indelible

Posted on February 24, 2018 by John Biscello

To ebb, the startling clarity of a stolen kiss sentenced to null and ghost, to lips indelibly parted then closed.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged ebb, erotic, intimacy, John Biscello, kiss, love, memory, mouth, passion, poem, Poetry, romance, touch | Leave a comment

Enclosure

Posted on February 24, 2018 by John Biscello

Sometimes, it is just a marginal thatch of shadow slivering a cheek, or the rounded vowel of dimple puckering brazenly a bare knee, or the laser surgery performed on my small, fearful history, by a stray, smoldering gaze, it could … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged distance, enclosure, intimacy, John Biscello, kiss, knees, longing, passion, poem, Poetry, shadow, yearning | Leave a comment

First Steps

Posted on February 21, 2018 by John Biscello

It is not about holding her perfect, just so, in a prescribed manner, but rather, can you slowpour your breath into one another’s hips and clefts, while swaying? It is the mutual pressing of scars together, a controlled friction that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged burn, dance, dream, intimacy, John Biscello, love, passion, poem, Poetry, romance, slow dance | 13 Comments

Unlearned

Posted on January 18, 2018 by John Biscello

We are God’s longing to know herself on intimate, unfettered terms, human to the radiant touch and tenderest basking, infinitely unlearned.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged bask, devotion, expression, God, intimacy, John Biscello, love, poem, praise, tender, unlearned | Leave a comment

Ravels

Posted on December 31, 2017 by John Biscello

At the wound’s core, dark luscious ravels of text, courting, inviolate measures, the fathomless brood of Beauty’s End.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, dark, deveotion, ink, intimacy, John Biscello, luscious, poem, ravels, sadness, text, writing | Leave a comment