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Marianne

Posted on August 15, 2017 by John Biscello

A rocking chair stilled, white on white, burning, no sound– So long, Marianne.

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Lady Lazarus

Posted on August 14, 2017 by John Biscello

By the palm’s raised standard of root and stigmata, the dawn’s filtrating spread of light and volume give new breath to the legend of Lady Lazarus reborn.

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Spark

Posted on August 11, 2017 by John Biscello

The spider’s web grew roots and limbs, modeling itself a bare, cryptic decoy to court the incendiary kiss of lightning upon sallow grounds.

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In the Beginning

Posted on August 11, 2017 by John Biscello

The opaque gist and myopic blurring of a freshly risen ghost opening its eyes for the first time, wordless in the beginning.

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Mystery

Posted on August 10, 2017 by John Biscello

Because we never met, you will forever and always remain the fretted girl behind double crossed scratched glass square rooted Brooklyn train station blues, the soundless frozen fragment of a life running on and outward bound.

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Childhood’s Edge

Posted on June 29, 2017 by John Biscello

Excerpt from Nocturne Variations: The show has ended and we are now in the upstairs room at Tabanid, the room known as the Attic. It is sort of a private clubhouse, a vice den with no regard for … Continue reading →

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Girl

Posted on May 29, 2017 by John Biscello

Shrouded in white fire, barred from true exit, she, a marvelous and fearful shudder, is torn mysteriously from dreams rounded by the sleep of babes fitted to gallows.

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Worn

Posted on May 28, 2017 by John Biscello

In transit, and in stillness, station by station, one chance moment out of a million and one lost, we see love, in a precious tangle, a flaccid melt, and we renew ourselves through the rumpled means of lives unmade to … Continue reading →

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Flashpoint

Posted on May 28, 2017 by John Biscello

By reign of pearls, a pin-up siren minding gravity to commemorate a slow-burn fade to mortal flash.

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Flight Pattern

Posted on May 25, 2017 by John Biscello

He has peopled the world outside his window with decoys and delegates. They go where he cannot, they climb and scrabble and perch where he can only watch. The cage, you see, is more than just a symbolic prop. He … Continue reading →

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