Tag Archives: John Biscello

Vellum

At vellum’s core, pink, parsing the grammar of lips, to trespass, lightly.

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Seize

It is how the mouth plays chords the lips keep time to– Kiss, erring to seize.    

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Morning

Scars worn out to fade, old records played in small hours– Dreams chased by morning.

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Bath

Sun, drizzling pink onto the rim of the tub– Lady, soaked, warms up.

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Knead

From hips to belly, the distance between longing and bare knead, swelling.

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Prelude

Small, slow kiss, followed by lips mowing soft petals– How to eat a rose.

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Next

The lushest red rose, a fragile torch passed, to grace whatever comes next.

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Sacrament

The tenderest shoots, she offered as nuptials– Blood, green to the touch.    

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instagrammatika

it’s a new world a small world after all lowercase no-scroll instapoems & screenshot epistles taking you over the moon and on the road and back again in one fell lyrical swoop just in time for another poem about sublime … Continue reading

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Anne Sexton

It begins with a stopwatch, and a glass of water. The stopwatch belonged to her father, or to her father’s father. The glass of water is a joke. Imagine trying to remedy all that desert within, all that scabbing red … Continue reading

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