Tag Archives: japan

Forest

Posted on September 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We enter forests at the liminal risk of time lost to the vagrancies of dreaming and silence of choir– Engendered by echoes and bated tense we move on at the mercy of mirrorless haunt.

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Elegy

Posted on September 10, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems At the rooted center and trembling wake of this elegant haunted universe symmetry and chorus call upon us intimately as first and last witnesses emptying out to the grief and cherish of every taken breath … Continue reading →

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Two

Posted on September 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Side by side, farmers reigning symmetry in repose– The sky, blue to the taste, with chalky traces of cloud powdering the empty course– Images of the floating world persist in material means and long takes … Continue reading →

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Flicker

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We are here, but briefly, finite exhales threaded to infinite digressions, nowhere and now here minding a slip of the tongue, a merciful spell of passage shedding lightly to no known ends.

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Nuptials

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Here, a plot of overgrown grass and conjugal motives– A desirously bowing limb decked out in pink and green, caressing the time-darkened stone of one who has passed from now to now-again… The enduring portrait … Continue reading →

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Elegy for the Living

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Out of the world’s slow unseen turning, a darkly candid limb photobombs the dead, en route to heaven’s extended mouth of silence– The living, below, crossing gravely their own secret vigils, never witness the lancing … Continue reading →

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Slow Coffee

Posted on September 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The sign in the window read Slow Coffee and when you went inside and found out the story of the owner an artist and former architect who had a brain stroke he explained that this … Continue reading →

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Floating World

Posted on August 27, 2023 by John Biscello

Within the hyphenated seizure of rain upon stone, a lyrical wake of kisses threading sky to the earth-sown– Images of the floating world perceive our birth and death, we go on, surviving our ghosts, dissolving into unmembered deeds of light, … Continue reading →

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Inlet

Posted on August 25, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Stalking fervently inlaid territories and textures, ribbed intimacies scaling soundly an overture to evolutionary bonds and leaps— lizard, fish, man splashing wildly in pools jazz forming freely in the river’s fast-moving mouth— notes, air, ground … Continue reading →

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Fare

Posted on August 25, 2023 by John Biscello

At the elevated cemetery near the railroad tracks the silent Buddha presides unerringly over the ghosts faring passage to no known ends.

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