Tag Archives: love

Ice Cream

Posted on March 25, 2018 by John Biscello

Like ice cream, this dream of life, wintering its soul– How lovely the melt! (Artwork by Hiroshige)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, dream, haiku, hiroshige, japan, John Biscello, love, painting, poem, snow, soul, white, Winter | Leave a comment

Autobiography

Posted on March 25, 2018 by John Biscello

To know myself, a rogue aggregate of loving atoms, a happy shivering clusterfuck of luminous baubles banded together to forge and assume an alleged identity, no papers or pulpit required, to fulfill an arc, and heart-guided directives, to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged autobiography, badlands, desert, dream, God, I, identity, John Biscello, love, me, play, poem, Poetry, soul, spirit | 6 Comments

Scent

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Suspicion assails, Why did he give this to me? The scent of a trail. (Artwork by Paul Klee)

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Night Moves

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Tree’s night-perm like fog, stars pining to get lost there– Long distance courtship. (Artwork by Georgia O’ Keefe)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged courtship, D.H. Lawrence ranch, Georgia O' Keefe, haiku, John Biscello, love, nature, New Mexico, night sky, painting, poem, Stars, tree | Leave a comment

Need

Posted on March 20, 2018 by John Biscello

Some don’t go crazy, they make it so as to live– one splat at a time. (Artwork by Jackson Pollock)

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Nursery

Posted on March 19, 2018 by John Biscello

The nursery burned, as the children kept playing– Parents worlds away. (Artwork by Dorothea Tanning)

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Mercy

Posted on March 18, 2018 by John Biscello

Always a mother, always gentle enclosure– Between palms, mercy.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged compassion, guadalupe, haiku, healing, icon, John Biscello, love, mercy, mother, poem, saint, virgin mother | Leave a comment

Riot’s Rake

Posted on March 17, 2018 by John Biscello

Grateful for Ashleigh Grycner’s review of Raking the Dust, which appears in the latest installment of Riot Material, and coincides with RTD’s April 3rd relaunch. Raking the Dust, John Biscello’s masterful second novel, is first and foremost a novel about second … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized | Tagged addiction, Ashleigh Grycner, dreams, John Biscello, love, novel, Publication, Raking the Dust, riot material, Surrealism, Taos, writing life | Leave a comment

Freeze

Posted on March 16, 2018 by John Biscello

Ice skating past dark, on a frozen pond, alone– Where they swam, last spring. (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Beach

Posted on March 11, 2018 by John Biscello

Life, give us a break, Love, the loafer’s paradise, childlike in its reign. (Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson)

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