Tag Archives: kiss

First Snow

Posted on October 24, 2017 by John Biscello

Upon first snow’s feathery kissing of bare limbs, interlocked, we will know ourselves as Nature, never truly apart, the sheer force of dream on white too powerful to sever.

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Jack and Jill

Posted on October 16, 2017 by John Biscello

Soft serve ice cream date, Jill kissed Jack’s cheek just because– Love never grows old.

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Pour

Posted on September 14, 2017 by John Biscello

Pouring slow, hot gold into a mortal embrace– Touch melts near to grace.

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Kiss

Posted on September 7, 2017 by John Biscello

The gaze, faraway, fastened to a winter moon– snow to lips, a kiss.

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Old-Fashioned Romance

Posted on August 22, 2017 by John Biscello

I will blow air into your mouth like this it’s called a kiss oh and I’m holding your collar right here just in case you try to run away and go play stickball or something with Billy because Jilly told … Continue reading →

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Pronoun, Singular

Posted on March 22, 2017 by John Biscello

I for an I, the faltering trade-in of an egotist contracting tunnels at the expense of light’s vented kiss.

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Leaf

Posted on June 29, 2016 by John Biscello

(Written in response to Josef Sudek’s “From the Window of my Atelier” series)  A single leaf, solitary, unattached, at home in space, feral pucker seizing upon glass, a lonely kiss moist to the crunch.

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Arson

Posted on May 27, 2016 by John Biscello

To speak fire these days, to claim desire in a fierce consumptive manner, is no longer a popular notion, no longer in vogue. It is an outworn, outmoded, out-dated form of expression. We know too much, we know too much … Continue reading →

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Cleft

Posted on April 28, 2016 by John Biscello

Kiss, the clefting of vowels while she brings your mouth to praise.

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Arc

Posted on April 21, 2016 by John Biscello

It is the mouth birthing a blood-new kiss that begs gravity’s pardon and raises lips to an impossible arc.

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