Tag Archives: linda stojak

Cover Reveal

Posted on October 20, 2025 by John Biscello

Cover reveal for my sixth novel, No One Dreams in Color, which will be published by Unsolicited Press in April 2026. I am thrilled that the cover features the artwork of Linda Stojak, one of my favorite contemporary artists who creates … Continue reading →

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Company of Echoes

Posted on November 17, 2022 by John Biscello

Near to the bones of warming solitude we wildly graze. We are out here in this place where our vagrancies are enabled by the mass grace of words stories voices that roots us home. At home with solitude we are … Continue reading →

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Next?

Posted on December 17, 2021 by John Biscello

A dancer’s sad dream– Flight, short-lived, returning to earth, sharp teeth.

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Imprint

Posted on December 17, 2021 by John Biscello

Debutante, left to smolder and ash, traceless, in some afterlife, unannounced to the trailing cortege.

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Ghost Story

Posted on June 4, 2019 by John Biscello

The turn of the screw, set her ghost to shivering– The blues became her. (Artwork by Linda Stojak)

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Last Dance

Posted on June 4, 2019 by John Biscello

Forever had plans, to waltz in a white ballroom– Somewhere, a wrong turn. (Artwork by Linda Stojak)

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Who Was She?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by John Biscello

In purgatory, the last of the debutantes, adrift, as if dreamed. (Artwork by Linda Stojak)

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Debutante

Posted on March 11, 2018 by John Biscello

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

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged afterlife, Artwork, cortege, cryptic, debutante, faceless, haiku, haunted, John Biscello, linda stojak, poem, Yellow | Leave a comment

Recoil

Posted on February 28, 2018 by John Biscello

The weddings didn’t come off, for either one. Limbo, reciting their grief, and frozen recoil, held them aloft, sisters annointed by a rogue strain of etheric default. (Artwork by Linda Stojak)

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Unfinished Nocturne

Posted on April 27, 2017 by John Biscello

She is the living embodiment of a nocturne, a girl who gathers dark and silence from the cave she inhabits. Or the cave that inhabits her. She sits, stock-still, a fugitive Buddha quietly gathering dark. Quietly, but not always serenely. … Continue reading →

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