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Tag Archives: poem
Rhyme-Scheme
There is nothing to order or arrange, nothing to worry about. No explanations required. Dry logic and tortured rationale can be set aside. At least for a little while. Try it. You see, everything rhymes in this letterless alphabet of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged John Biscello, may the force be with you, poem, rhymeplay, word to the mother
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Cask
We are here to marvel, and to grieve, to haunt the liminal edges which find us supremely fragile in our longing.
Devotional
Remember me to the ease of light, its pause and passage, we are not long for this earth, which swallows us, and our lovetagged bones, as a matter of natural course and radical recomposition, all the gifts, and hopes unwound … Continue reading
As You Desire
Free from staid context, and the fragile lull of fate, she had come a long unmapped way to create a new set of illusions by which to set and frame her course. (Photo by Cindy Sherman)
Posted in Cinema, photography, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged cindy sherman, film still, John Biscello, photography, poem, this girl's life
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Neo-Realism
There was something about a white telephone, unringing, that made her think of tightly wound spirals of cigarette-smoke in Italian films, or poorly lit hotel rooms where actresses played to the pall of their silence and wanting. Any moment now, … Continue reading
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Tagged cindy sherman, film still, John Biscello, neo-realism, photography, poem
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Icarus, Remixed
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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Tagged Icarus, John Biscello, Matisse, mythology, poem, sun worship, the new myths, youth
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In Praise of Ryokan
The moon, melting liquid frost onto my window, slips through my fingers, as I recall that legendary jewel thief who once pulled off an impossible heist, which, to this day, the right kind of fools, lovers and lunatics, constellate their … Continue reading
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Tagged full moon mysticism, John Biscello, poem, Ryokan, the great fool, true moonshine
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Room to Spare
At a lighted remove, she coerces solitude into a tender rapport with her barest haunt. (Photo by Cindy Sherman)
Posted in Cinema, photography, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged cindy sherman, John Biscello, open door, photography, poem, the room, untitled film still
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Looking Without
The simplest means to revelation, and perhaps revolution, was to stay away from mirrors and the masks which justified their glaring reproof. (Photo by Cindy Sherman)
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Tagged cindy sherman, John Biscello, mirror mirror, photography, poem, untitled film still
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Light Becomes Her
There was never going to be any show, she knew that. Yet she fed on the light to counteract an unappeasable hunger, to star where the emptiness reamed darkest. (Photo by Cindy Sherman)
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Tagged cindy sherman, cinemascope, John Biscello, lights camera action, photography, poem, untitled film still
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