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Slide

Posted on September 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. So much depends upon a red slide hosting a long play’s journey beyond the edges of night to the favored glee and dawning of innocence when dreaming.

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Nocturne

Posted on September 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A gentle beckon, and softly blurred invitation to disappear– No words necessary as you drift along the gauzy lines of a nocturne, so soon to fade, so near to dreaming within worlds quietly lost.

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Cafe

Posted on September 12, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Words, well-warmed by the soft buttery spread and halo of naked bulbs– In tenderest solitude, texts run on, deviant, unfinished, bare to the trespasses of touch and longing.

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Tenor

Posted on September 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Given over to the immaculate tedium of dreaming, to spells of cherished solitude, notes are passed in silence, while absence swells the heart to fondest proportions and muted nostalgia.

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Boats

Posted on September 10, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the shadow-stained haunt beneath the stone bridge a pair of empty rowboats have gently digressed and gone adrift   from merrily merrily merrily to the edges of solitude mirroring the span and proof that … Continue reading →

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Set

Posted on September 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Where the moss grows wilder, clamoring to efface or colonize, or perhaps model a seasonable fashion makeover to the stone deity lotus-locked in stunning repose, who long since ceded his material crown to the menial … Continue reading →

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Two

Posted on September 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Side by side, farmers reigning symmetry in repose– The sky, blue to the taste, with chalky traces of cloud powdering the empty course– Images of the floating world persist in material means and long takes … Continue reading →

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Flicker

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We are here, but briefly, finite exhales threaded to infinite digressions, nowhere and now here minding a slip of the tongue, a merciful spell of passage shedding lightly to no known ends.

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Nuptials

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Here, a plot of overgrown grass and conjugal motives– A desirously bowing limb decked out in pink and green, caressing the time-darkened stone of one who has passed from now to now-again… The enduring portrait … Continue reading →

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Portal

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A most gorgeous, delicate, tenuous tenor of web, embroidered with translucent beads of morning-cut rain, this the ephemeral lens through which to view a landscape, a scene, quarter-notes of a dream, or dreaming itself pinned … Continue reading →

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