Tag Archives: longing

Autumn

Posted on November 9, 2020 by John Biscello

I close my eyes and I see her again, a silhouette, near to distance, and dissolving– the autumn rain taps its seminal code for longing onto the trembling glass of a window closed.

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Transcience

Posted on October 26, 2020 by John Biscello

Where were you last night, my dreams asked of my silence— Between worlds, I longed.

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Throb

Posted on October 23, 2020 by John Biscello

It is the caste of throb in which words, palpitating, line up to serve a poem’s desirous need to know your longing as an open source.

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In Search of Lost Time

Posted on September 18, 2020 by John Biscello

A meditation on memory, longing, storytelling and spiritual homesickness.

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Transience

Posted on April 7, 2020 by John Biscello

Where were you last night, my dreams asked of my silence— Between worlds, I longed.

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Corner Shot

Posted on June 16, 2019 by John Biscello

The word on the street kept him waiting for a dame made of ink-wet dreams.

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Obsession

Posted on April 26, 2019 by John Biscello

To be claimed by that which you can never possess– the cyclical deficit of longing in bated arrears.

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The Brides

Posted on April 7, 2019 by John Biscello

Winter grows its own brides, penitent, forlorn, pining to wed a warm draft of air, a silking furl of yellow, before systemic freeze slows desire to a limnal peck. (Image: CocoRosie)

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Historyless Touch

Posted on December 30, 2018 by John Biscello

Touch me where I am not, where the fade meets the form, where the furtive scent of glisten perfumes its own root cause and fable, give to me the dirty dinghied secrets of the center, the storied core, which, in … Continue reading →

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Breeze

Posted on July 7, 2018 by John Biscello

More erotic dreams about the girl from the sea– Longing, rimmed with salt

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