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Found Lost

Posted on November 15, 2022 by John Biscello

We recall fondly. We recollect. The good old days in which we titled windmills redolently and rode clanging dusty boxcars across the glaring horizontal spread of america. What a lay we said hitching up our pants sticking our peckers into … Continue reading →

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Exit Through the Gift Shop

Posted on November 13, 2022 by John Biscello

We’ve heard rumors that God doesn’t know he exists. She exists. It. Whatever the gender or genderless you get the picture. God doesn’t know there is such thing as God that he is this thing we call God this blessed … Continue reading →

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Sea Change

Posted on May 19, 2022 by John Biscello

Excerpt from my novel, No One Dreams in Color. 1.    I was nineteen and lost when I first saw Wendigo. That was the year everything broke apart. In the center, and in other places too.    My mother died, … Continue reading →

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This Dreamed Life

Posted on December 22, 2021 by John Biscello

Remember me to the ease of light, its pause and passage, we are not long for this earth, which swallows us, and our lovetagged bones, as a matter of natural course and radical recomposition, all the gifts, and hopes unwound … Continue reading →

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Hurry Slowly

Posted on October 19, 2020 by John Biscello

“Hurry Slowly”was the ticktock mantraof the photographer,Josef Sudek, who praisedand made lasting secret loveto his Muse and ghost-veiledbride, Prague,vowing his fugitive eyeto herand her alone. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Smoke

Posted on October 19, 2020 by John Biscello

Mortal ponderance– Where did the time go this time? Smoke favors silence. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Childhood’s Edge

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

Estranged, yet aloft, in a world her vision sculpts– Adulthood far off. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Leaf

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

 A single leaf,solitary, unattached, at homein space, feral puckerseizing upon glass,a lonely kissmoist to the crunch. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Moment in Time

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

Can you hear, the cobbled morning streetsgathering in thick coarse handsthe staccato clang of hoovesand thin gray voicesarising from the ghostsof peoplecaught in a sudden sonata?Can you not hear,the distance of bones,calling upon lightin an unremembered flicker? Photo by Josef … Continue reading →

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Wheelbarrow

Posted on October 16, 2020 by John Biscello

Consideringthe slopesof noble toiland grave matter,so much dependsupon a soiledwheelbarrow. Photo by Josef Sudek

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