Tag Archives: niigata

Elegy for the Living

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Out of the world’s slow unseen turning, a darkly candid limb photobombs the dead, en route to heaven’s extended mouth of silence– The living, below, crossing gravely their own secret vigils, never witness the lancing … Continue reading →

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Slow Coffee

Posted on September 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The sign in the window read Slow Coffee and when you went inside and found out the story of the owner an artist and former architect who had a brain stroke he explained that this … Continue reading →

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Floating World

Posted on August 27, 2023 by John Biscello

Within the hyphenated seizure of rain upon stone, a lyrical wake of kisses threading sky to the earth-sown– Images of the floating world perceive our birth and death, we go on, surviving our ghosts, dissolving into unmembered deeds of light, … Continue reading →

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Pilgrimage

Posted on August 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Rainy Wednesday, visiting Ryokan’s hut— No one there, frog jumped.

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Fare

Posted on August 25, 2023 by John Biscello

At the elevated cemetery near the railroad tracks the silent Buddha presides unerringly over the ghosts faring passage to no known ends.

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Set Course

Posted on August 24, 2023 by John Biscello

In the palm of shadows, at the rounded edge of wake, vanishing points emerge to blur and perpetuate the deeply dreamed course of our longings, all those ghosts called upon to fade.

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Quartet

Posted on August 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A silent quartet, facing the mottled reflections of lives, unrecognized, emptying into a pool of dreams, wandering without claim or respite.

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Still Life

Posted on August 23, 2023 by John Biscello

In our petitions for mercy repose is the standard by which we elicit the preferred company of grace.

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Slow Burn

Posted on August 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Time aloneleaves us smallcherished pleasuresthrough which our livesare gathered slowlyin momentsof favored ephemera.

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Wavelength

Posted on August 20, 2023 by John Biscello

Within the dark cradling weave of silence softly she tenders the stuff of dreams upon which my starry vigils are gently rounded.

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