Tag Archives: John Biscello

Edie

Too many small hours pimped out to wraiths on parade– Heart, in real time, breaks.

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Beginning Now

Craft. Tactile homage, and respect to craft, its inviolable depths and integrity, to approach craft as you would a fertile god, to practice, radically, at its altar, to consecrate with marked intent, and to know in your heart’s heart that … Continue reading

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Chair

No sitters to tend, solvent to its own winter, if these floors could talk.   (Installation by Izumi Yokoyama)

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Peter

Weeping for his past, rare photo of Peter Pan– Next stop, Neverland.   (Photo by Weegee)

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Dreams

To dream of flying, while caught in a man-made web– Boys, such easy prey.   (Photo by Arthur Tress)

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Suitcases

Traveling light, dark, baggage claimed, left behind, she ordered her life, simply, through metaphor and blithe repetitions, expecting very little in return.     (Photo by Heather Ross)

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Debutante

Debutante, left to smolder and ash, traceless, in some afterlife, unannounced to the trailing cortege.   (Artwork by Linda Stojak)

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Fetish

To dare a fetish, he ceded faith to a stalk– Venus infers loss.   (Photo by Alfred Steiglitz)

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No Sound, No Fury

Moses, caped in shroud, awaiting new commandments– Silence, turned up loud.   (Photo by Edward Steichen)

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Vortex

Inevitable, the vortex calling her back– Little girl’s first loss.   (Photo by Heather Ross)

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