Tag Archives: stone

Love and Death

Posted on February 8, 2024 by John Biscello

The branch of the tree reaching down. It reaches down to graze the time-scarred headstone, to caress it. Could this be … a secret love story, a love story with no history, or with a cortege of history, spanning many … Continue reading →

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Rites

Posted on October 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems Down by the river, a boy and his grandfather– Soft grass grows through stone.

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Testament

Posted on October 15, 2020 by John Biscello

Kettled by mass and slow-building infinity, solitude begs nothing of stone and receives a woman through to which to flesh out its lone, fretted hymn and testament. #64 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Juliet in Purple

Posted on August 23, 2018 by John Biscello

In the purple gloam, stone terrace mourns the loss of Juliet’s nightcalls.

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Metamorphosis

Posted on February 10, 2017 by John Biscello

On the day I was turned to stone all mirrors were instantly abolished and silence became that gilded golden thing I had heard so much about and the stillness of time slowed to a moist chafing pardon where I was … Continue reading →

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