Tag Archives: mythology

Breathing Ground for Phoenixes

Posted on March 24, 2020 by John Biscello

There are baby phoenixes burning inside my lungs. They want to grow into their deaths and fiery unabated splendor, want to consume the ash-cake coronating their birth-days, which matches abolition to symmetry. I am being asked, no forced to open … Continue reading →

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Phoenix

Posted on January 9, 2020 by John Biscello

Remembered to the calling of ashes, the lasting phoenix gives due form to a ceremony wakened by the leavings of wind.

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Icarus, Remixed

Posted on August 19, 2019 by John Biscello

I was Icarus with double-edged wings once upon a time. The dreamer’s big eyes, full of flames and longing, the impetuous nature, the jazz of my soaring, all of it defined me as the blaring antithesis to my dad’s son-proofed … Continue reading →

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Viewfinder

Posted on December 12, 2018 by John Biscello

Childhood is an ongoing historical fiction that changes based on who you are when you’re examining it. Who you are in certain periods and chapters in your life, determines what your childhood is. Was would imply that childhood is fixed … Continue reading →

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Begin

Posted on April 15, 2018 by John Biscello

No need for the past, living mythology, you, here and now, begin.

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Nymphlight

Posted on March 7, 2018 by John Biscello

Uprooted, prevailing agony folds the pagan nymph to a distant within; her position, untenantable, will alter according to blood-new spates of reign, coursing undisclosed seasons. (Photo by Anne Brigman)

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Center of Nowhere

Posted on January 8, 2018 by John Biscello

I come from nowhere Daniel, and nowhere is the exact center of the world. Isn’t that exciting? I agreed with Anya that it was, even though I wasn’t sure what she meant. And I knew if I … Continue reading →

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Siren

Posted on October 19, 2017 by John Biscello

Blaming the siren is false, your heart chose drowning long before her call.

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Narcissus

Posted on September 29, 2017 by John Biscello

Grounded by warm shock– Is that beautiful thing me? Drowning through live feed.

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