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Tag Archives: John Biscello
Poolside
The water listened to the girl disappear and hissed. It was a warning that no one should try and follow her, every last fragment now belonged to incalculable depths. She was safe from trespass and further fracturing. (Photo … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged depths, escape, girl, haunt, John Biscello, Ophelia, poem, poolside, sketch, story, water
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Paper Trail
Completed draft of my new novel, No Man’s Brooklyn. A return to childhood, to the source of ghosts, to Brooklyn roots.
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged book, childhood, completion, draft, dysfunction, family, ghosts, John Biscello, literature, love, no man's brooklyn, novel, Prose, story
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Sublime
The mouth, birthing a migrant kiss, begs gravity’s pardon in raising lips to a sublime arc.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged arc, gravity, impossible, John Biscello, kiss, longing, mouth, passion, poem, Poetry, romance
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Indelible
To ebb, the startling clarity of a stolen kiss sentenced to null and ghost, to lips indelibly parted then closed.
Enclosure
Sometimes, it is just a marginal thatch of shadow slivering a cheek, or the rounded vowel of dimple puckering brazenly a bare knee, or the laser surgery performed on my small, fearful history, by a stray, smoldering gaze, it could … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged distance, enclosure, intimacy, John Biscello, kiss, knees, longing, passion, poem, Poetry, shadow, yearning
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Bonepick
I tell myself stories in the dark, Anya. Whether or not they help is either of primary consequence or none at all. Sometimes you have to walk through the boneyard in order to reach the garden. This what I tell … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged anya, Beauty, bones, Brooklyn, death, garden, John Biscello, love, no man's brooklyn, novel, rebirth, romance, story
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Soma
It is, at winter’s finite edge, that we glean the bent, palsied bloom, somatic in its turn toward Spring’s inevitable host.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Beauty, bloom, flower, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, seasons, soma, somatic, spirit, spring, Winter
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Gauge
If, in words I found you wanting, lean to perish, would silence bestow a second, surer opinion?
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged communication, exchange, gauge, John Biscello, language, poem, Poetry, relationship, silence, words
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Gist
The manic blush and titter of young love is no serum nor mirage, but rather the gist of bloom martyred so soon to thorns.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bloom, flower, John Biscello, love, poem, Poetry, romance, thorns, young love
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Bask
Rapt, in gratitude, the writer fasting on silence, and slimmest wisps, to gain Beauty’s favor and superlative bask, beyond recognition.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bask, Beauty, expression, John Biscello, Literary, Muse, poem, Poetry, writer, writign life
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