Tag Archives: japan

Strangers

Posted on August 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We are all pretending here. Hoping not for the best but for not the worst to claim unsettle or overtake us. The young girl in the rented summer kimono taking a selfie with the misty … Continue reading →

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Passage

Posted on August 10, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. If only in trespasses and glimmers, if only the passages within possessed lasting value— What is that thing, at the edge of waking, that thing without agenda or the burden of always moving freight?

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Moon River

Posted on August 8, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. To engage the intimacy of distance one must attend from within the agency of absence to sensual contact.

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Portrait in Red

Posted on August 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the hushed expectant stillness of red, the wall waited for the day it would no longer have to hold the girl back or up, waited patiently for blue to pick up where she left … Continue reading →

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Web

Posted on August 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We, lucent beads of rain, clinging indefinitely to a spider’s web— the climate of ephemera.

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Cell

Posted on August 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the loneliness of night she stares at her cell phone thinking about her next customer not thinking about them at all numb wondering about her high school friends what they are doing right now … Continue reading →

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Devils in Daylight

Posted on July 25, 2019 by John Biscello

Review of Junichiro Tanizaki’s Devils in Daylight appearing in Riot Material. “I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, … Continue reading →

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The Calling

Posted on May 24, 2019 by John Biscello

To live by a code, riveted to Fate’s decree– sword dipped in moonlight.

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Dinner Date from Hell

Posted on April 18, 2019 by John Biscello

They take, and they don’t take lightly– Vicious cycles sometimes have faces with barren eyes and aphid bellies full of insatiable desire– Consider the state of your soul’s diet, and exorcise regularly.

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Rainy Day Concerto

Posted on April 2, 2019 by John Biscello

Hello, floating world, tilted by sudden downpour– In crossing, feet sing. (Artwork by Hiroshige)

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