Tag Archives: music

Tether

Posted on September 27, 2017 by John Biscello

Monkey mind tethered to a man’s quest for music– Grail’s holiest fool.

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Lotus

Posted on September 13, 2017 by John Biscello

Lotus, by riot and symphony, seeds new nodes– Music clones itself.

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Jack Kerouac

Posted on September 8, 2017 by John Biscello

The sea of white noise fathoming secret wavelengths– scribe tuned to angels.

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Serenade

Posted on September 6, 2017 by John Biscello

Moonlight serenade, every autumn the same song– Grief resets its course.

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Atoms of Eve

Posted on August 27, 2017 by John Biscello

Atoms of Eve, sawed in half, daughters, sons, beyond your command– Gender-play (see: Pan)

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Vein

Posted on August 27, 2017 by John Biscello

Crepuscular dames hoarding rain in barrowed hearts– magic’s brooding vein.

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Chet Baker

Posted on August 25, 2017 by John Biscello

Noticed the gilded wink and smudge Heaven’s kissprint on the furthest edge of sleek brass holding in its bottomless breath the bluest broken pieces of one man’s clean/cut heart treading blown glass lightly the beck and call of the saddest … Continue reading →

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Silhouette

Posted on August 15, 2017 by John Biscello

Baring a life sentence of notes and text, the steady bow executes its awful rowing toward God in marginal silhouette.

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Music

Posted on August 14, 2017 by John Biscello

Sometimes, when alone, and faced with the prospect of music as a savior, the choice between which record to play means all the difference in the world in getting through a day in a life ordered to meet someone else’s … Continue reading →

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Vivaldi in Love

Posted on March 2, 2017 by John Biscello

Spring, tender bud raising gravity in the center of a palm. Summer, drawn and quartered shafts of light mouthing the sea. Fall, fetal leaves curling in on themselves— inversion banking on faith. Winter, hospitable merger of bare limbs relishing arson … Continue reading →

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