Tag Archives: Light

Maraschino

Posted on December 18, 2023 by John Biscello

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged affection, cherry, Light, lovers, poem, Prose, sun, touch | Leave a comment

Slippers

Posted on October 10, 2023 by John Biscello

In a well-kept shrine the dignity of slippers unmoved by great lengths.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged broom, haiku, japan, Light, niigata, poem, shrine, slippers | Leave a comment

Refuge

Posted on September 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We practice intimacy in scales, from a near warmed distance– a concentrated swath of light, calling us forth, entreats our internal orphan to find fugitive solace in the softly respiring aura of solitude.

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged house, japan, Light, poem, Poetry, portrait, sado island, solitude, warmth | Leave a comment

Storytellers

Posted on November 23, 2022 by John Biscello

Posted in Artwork, Audio, photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged excerpt, fragment, Light, shadow, story, storytelling, voices, words | 1 Comment

Proof

Posted on October 7, 2022 by John Biscello

They say that in the beginning was the word but you weren’t given the true complete sentence— In the beginning was the word, betraying silence, and this became lighted proof of the beginning of fiction.

Posted in Poetry | Tagged fiction, Light, poem, silence, words | Leave a comment

Fireflies

Posted on July 24, 2022 by John Biscello

All these stories– Fireflies in a garden, on a moonless night.

Posted in Poetry | Tagged dark, fireflies, Light, moon, poem, Poetry, stories | Leave a comment

Lucent

Posted on July 4, 2022 by John Biscello

Posted in Poetry | Tagged alchemy, dance, Light, lucent, poem, visions | Leave a comment

Analog

Posted on June 23, 2022 by John Biscello

Light. Like ten thousand fingers scaling the arpeggios of lives minted and scattered— the autobiography of days demanding their own masks— and we, the weepless ones, dry and several worlds removed, drown in the riptides of bass and metaphor within … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged desert blues, Light, metaphor, poem, record of days | Leave a comment

Altar Piece

Posted on June 17, 2022 by John Biscello

We are the stunning brides of tomorrow, dressing up for ritual matrimony in an airless church where children laugh and hurl gulls of rice, and the candles, matching light to symmetry, never go out.

Posted in Poetry | Tagged candles, Light, matrimony, poem | Leave a comment

Tatters

Posted on March 23, 2022 by John Biscello

For many years I asked Grief to wait outside my window, a peripheral guest chancing obscure, fugitive details, and lighted tatters. Have I been a poor host, stranger to my own ghost and remnants?

Posted in Poetry | Tagged grief, Light, loss, poem, shadow | Leave a comment