Tag Archives: mask

It Never Entered My Mind

Posted on October 2, 2025 by John Biscello

From the Polaroid Noir series

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Nighwatch

Posted on September 25, 2023 by John Biscello

His native habitat was a window by moonlight. He would crouch there, gauzed in night mist, his fingers always poised upon his chin, as if rigging speculation, or some unresolved quandary, and he’d find me, writing at the kitchen table, … Continue reading →

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Calamity Jane

Posted on December 7, 2022 by John Biscello

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Venetian Noir

Posted on January 19, 2018 by John Biscello

Venetian Noir. Because every writer needs at least one identity crisis and an alter ego to match.

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Claim for the Meek

Posted on December 7, 2017 by John Biscello

I do not want to see the face of God. I want to see her mask, where and for whom it cracked, the causal history of lines and fissures; want to trace, with blind mute innocence, the light quartered and … Continue reading →

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Once

Posted on October 17, 2017 by John Biscello

The face you don’t see, marred by Love’s forfeit and cease– She was the one, once.

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Mask

Posted on October 1, 2017 by John Biscello

You cannot see tears burned inside a hidden face– Dying by degrees.

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Reign

Posted on September 22, 2017 by John Biscello

By cyclical turns, opiate visions seal clouds– Siren’s acid reign.

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Shuffle

Posted on September 18, 2017 by John Biscello

Rigged shuffle to bare, Love being not blind but masked– Pair of hearts, folding.

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Stir

Posted on September 17, 2017 by John Biscello

Scraping grave remnants, the woman’s canceled bones stir– You will know my name.

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