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Tag Archives: Poetry
TV
Light, a beacon in a fish-bowl. It was the only channel Bobby received at night after his parents went to sleep, after his vision adjusted to the warning signals arraigned in silence.
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Tagged fugue, haunted, John Biscello, Literary, living room, poem, Poetry, tv
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The Chairs
Stiff-spined, hammer-headed, squat-bottomed, rubble-flecked alternates to the chairs that once stilled motion and held human life; the people lost, the flights canceled, the chairs a stirring musical memory, a ghostly paean to the dashed dreams of a grave new world, … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged abandoned, airport, chairs, ghosts, haunted, John Biscello, Literary, nicosia, Poetry
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Mannequin
After countless years of mind-numbing routine, strolling up and down the avenue where she shopped for groceries and clothing and listlessly scavenged storefront windows with vicarious pleasure, on October 13th the housewife experienced a foreign sensation, astonishment, freighted with terror, … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bizarro, horror, housewife, John Biscello, Literary, mannequin, photo, Poetry, surreal
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Drizzle-matted canvas of glass, static layers of form assimilating harmony– Alice, sublimely mute, matches gravity to prayer in refining the lost art of sadness.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged alice, contemplation, drizzle, John Biscello, Poetry, rain, through the looking glass, window
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Fallout
The Rorschach pulse of ink in the ruptured veins of cityscape– angels, disguised as fallout, move unnoticed through an inherited smear campaign.
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged angels, chinese ink, Chua ek Kay, ink, John Biscello, Literary, Poetry, singapore
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Boy
At the time he didn’t know it, but stalking the radiant specter of morninglight as he sprinted down a cobbled alley, he left part of himself behind in a jigsaw piece of puddle that later, years later, he would reflect … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged boy, boyhood, Bresson, french, John Biscello, Literary, photograph, Poetry, youth
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Next?
A dancer’s sad dream– flight, short-lived, returning to earth, sharp teeth.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged art, ballet, dance, dream, John Biscello, Literary, Poetry
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Obscene not Herded
Destiny, the morningstar, hikes her dress up high and pisses a saberlike stream of light, honeyed pixels outsourcing guidance.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged cosmos, destiny, guidance, inspiration, John Biscello, Light, morningstar, poem, Poetry
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Naming Desire
Whoever I am, I have always depended on the kindness of words— such strange company these solitary verses.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged blanche dubois, John Biscello, kindness, poem, Poetry, words, writing
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Bedsores
In the permanent flophouse Love reigns supreme— A tried and torn migrant ready to drop from chronic fatigue
Posted in Poetry
Tagged chronic fatigue, flophouse, John Biscello, love, poem, Poetry
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