Tag Archives: Poetry

Treaty

Posted on September 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. At twilight, the softly paling into summer plum sky, sliver of moon suspended like a bone-white boomerang in the distance, narrow street courting its void with dignity, what kind of dream is this that reminds … Continue reading →

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Refuge

Posted on September 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We practice intimacy in scales, from a near warmed distance– a concentrated swath of light, calling us forth, entreats our internal orphan to find fugitive solace in the softly respiring aura of solitude.

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Tender is the Night

Posted on September 20, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems It is in these moments, when the pumpkin orange glow of the lanterns softens the streets, and the bicycles lined up in rows compose portraits of ordered symmetry, that the night turns in on itself, … Continue reading →

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Transit

Posted on September 20, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. All these arrivals and departures gauged to give edges and form to the prevailing plot twists and turns of our lives– In self-made labyrinths we wander, and lose ourselves repeatedly, if only to encode marked … Continue reading →

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The Hours

Posted on September 19, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Outside the station monotony finds solace in ritual want mated to vagrancy and hours slow burned.

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In Our Solitude

Posted on September 18, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Fasting on solitude and wordless want, waiting for the next far thing to arrive, to cede distances to an intimately engraved haunt– In dreams begin the cutting of our losses, only to see them return … Continue reading →

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Cinema

Posted on September 15, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. At night’s softest lyrical edge, dreams, untethered, come and go lightly. The cinema of our lives projected as a mutable course of flickering images, a tenure of opiate bewitchment, so soon fading.

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Slide

Posted on September 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. So much depends upon a red slide hosting a long play’s journey beyond the edges of night to the favored glee and dawning of innocence when dreaming.

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Nocturne

Posted on September 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A gentle beckon, and softly blurred invitation to disappear– No words necessary as you drift along the gauzy lines of a nocturne, so soon to fade, so near to dreaming within worlds quietly lost.

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Tenor

Posted on September 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Given over to the immaculate tedium of dreaming, to spells of cherished solitude, notes are passed in silence, while absence swells the heart to fondest proportions and muted nostalgia.

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