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Tag Archives: poem
How-To Manual
Hands reach, instinctively, because they understand what the mind’s fixed gears are sometimes too tight or slow to grasp: the necessity of shrinking distance through first contact, the dream-life of prayers.
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Tagged compassion, hands, John Biscello, Literary, poem, Poetry, prayer
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Film Treatment
God in the small details, the Devil in the abstract— in between, Us, the stuff stars are made from, on the cutting room floor.
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Tagged Cinema, devil, God, humans, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, Stars
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Winnie Cooper #9
After all these years I still might use the same technique: tugging on pigtails. A cruel and delightful swing, gaining momentum to vault headfirst into your secret hive, vaguely aware of and interested in honey, but the main draw, your … Continue reading
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Tagged honey, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, romance, winnie cooper, wonder years
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Bird in a Hand
A silver lining on the raven’s bruised left wing– endowment for the arts
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Tagged haiku, John Biscello, NEA, poem, Poetry, raven
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Station Identification
Professional lips moving at the speed of bullshit– wait for the pause, wait.
Pronoun, Singular
I for an I, the faltering trade-in of an egotist contracting tunnels at the expense of light’s vented kiss.
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Tagged ego, John Biscello, kiss, Literary, poem, Poetry, pronoun, tunnel
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Cloud Nine
Dylan Thomas falls from his barstool in Heaven— God, tending bar, picks him up, turns to Job—Who am I to judge?
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Tagged cloud-nine, Dylan Thomas, God, Heaven, Job, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, sobriety
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Gateway
It is here in this place, this chaste hollow, where my heart, bare to touch and asking, reveals itself in equal measures as gospel and wound, singing softly its locks and ravels to reach another’s lighted room, unbarred.
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Tagged heart, John Biscello, Literary, love, poem, Poetry
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