Tag Archives: japan

The Hours

Posted on September 19, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Outside the station monotony finds solace in ritual want mated to vagrancy and hours slow burned.

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In Our Solitude

Posted on September 18, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Fasting on solitude and wordless want, waiting for the next far thing to arrive, to cede distances to an intimately engraved haunt– In dreams begin the cutting of our losses, only to see them return … Continue reading →

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Moonshot

Posted on September 18, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Rows of secret lives, in the shadow of the moon– River flow, syncing.

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Transit

Posted on September 15, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Train station at night, quiet keeps me company– First person dreaming.

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Cinema

Posted on September 15, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. At night’s softest lyrical edge, dreams, untethered, come and go lightly. The cinema of our lives projected as a mutable course of flickering images, a tenure of opiate bewitchment, so soon fading.

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Nightwalk

Posted on September 14, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. At night, the high-rise with the lighted siege of multi-colored eyes, grows stumpy legs and projects out of the earth to wander freely, without conviction or purpose. No one, not even the people living inside … Continue reading →

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Slide

Posted on September 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. So much depends upon a red slide hosting a long play’s journey beyond the edges of night to the favored glee and dawning of innocence when dreaming.

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Nocturne

Posted on September 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A gentle beckon, and softly blurred invitation to disappear– No words necessary as you drift along the gauzy lines of a nocturne, so soon to fade, so near to dreaming within worlds quietly lost.

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Cafe

Posted on September 12, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Words, well-warmed by the soft buttery spread and halo of naked bulbs– In tenderest solitude, texts run on, deviant, unfinished, bare to the trespasses of touch and longing.

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Teem

Posted on September 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems In the lotus pond, ripples and respite echo in sync– Romance tenders its wake.

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