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Tag Archives: myth
The Last Word podcast
“Fascinating insights into the ‘storied and wild mind’ of author, playwright, poet and performer John Biscello with his latest book The Last Furies. Our far-ranging conversation takes us from his home in the “grunge-wonderland” of Taos to lands of fables … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater, Uncategorized
Tagged creative life, fable, grok, inspiration, Literary, myth, New Mexico, New York, novel, podcast, process, Santa Fe, Taos, the last word, voice, writing
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Paper Route
It’s hard when you live in a paper town. You see the other kids, the real ones, playing at the linen edges, the cloth borders, and you want to interact with them but you can’t cross over. There is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged alternative realities, fragment, map, myth, paper town, pioneer, Poetry, Prose, story, vanishing
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Her Body, Her Name
It was a time in her life when she was not there, not inside herself or her life. And she was pregnant. Pregnant by the wrong man, so many wrong turns and wrong men, and this one, a mislaid … Continue reading
Kid in a Western
He could feel his hand, an undertaker’s apprentice, rosy rash pecking out a tremolo in the palm’s moist center, a fluttery pulse, as his fingers massaged the handle. His fingers ever sensitive to the crushed pollen coating the handle (time … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Poetry, Prose
Tagged americana, dimestore novel, fiction, gunfight, lore, myth, pulp fiction, story, The Kid, western, wild west
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Gilead After Dark
Time dreamed, and I was there. The persistently nagging sense of simultaneously being there and not being there. A fusion and mediation of allegedly separate entities, such as timelines, distances (intimacy, you see, belong to the immeasurable). The mantling of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged balm in gilead, children, echoes, excerpt, musing, myth, novel in progress, out of the dark, sketch, story, vision, voices, wonder
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Devil and Saxman
(Excerpt from None So Distant, novel in progress) The devil on the side of the highway got tired of standing and sat down on his briefcase waiting for history to catch up or to pass away altogether. It didn’t … Continue reading
Dust
Posted in Audio, photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged Audio, dust, myth, Spoken Word, story, today, voice, words
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Our Lady of Dust
Posted in Audio, photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged Audio, dust, myth, red desert, Spoken Word, story, text, words
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