Tag Archives: train station

Way Station

Posted on October 11, 2025 by John Biscello

I walked to the train station at night. I was going to drive. It was a hot day, I had already been out walking in the sun, and I thought—just drive to the train station. But when it was time … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized | Tagged america, desolation, fiction, fragment, Prose, railroad, rain, shadows, story, town, train station, travel, writing | Leave a comment

Brooklyn Spleen

Posted on November 21, 2024 by John Biscello

We didn’t talk about it, but we knew we’d never amount to anything, no matter what we did. No matter how celebrated the accomplishment, no matter how big the fiction and the audience buying it, nothing could ever fill those … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications | Tagged Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, childhood, friends, kids, neighborhood, Poetry, Prose, story, streets, train station | 3 Comments

Station

Posted on October 24, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Through a gate darkly, semblance of lives, burning time– Tokyo nocturne.

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Weather Report

Posted on October 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Satiated want of rain kissing ground open to blurred trysts with strangers.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged crowds, haiku, japan, niigata, poem, portrait, portrati, rain, street scene, train station | Leave a comment

Dispatch

Posted on October 22, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Scent of coming rain, accompanied by silence– Solitude holds sway.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged desolation, haiku, happy place, isolation, japan, niigata, poem, red light, solitude, street scene, train station | Leave a comment

Way

Posted on October 20, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Every crossing moves in step with homesickness for places unknown.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blue, clouds, crossing, haiku, japan, niigata, poem, train station, umbrella | Leave a comment

Transit

Posted on September 15, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Train station at night, quiet keeps me company– First person dreaming.

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged echigo ishiyama station, haiku, japan, nightwalks, niigata, poem, street photography, train station | Leave a comment

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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Company

Posted on June 25, 2021 by John Biscello

It is scary once you realize that the past can be changed, and that the future is fixed, a rigged absolute. Knowing that changes everything. And what about the present? For some the present is intolerable cruelty, unimpeachable company. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications | Tagged anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, no sleep till brooklyn, novel, train station | Leave a comment

Waiting

Posted on January 28, 2021 by John Biscello

I am waiting. There I am, see me, waiting on the train station platform. I am waiting for my train. It is a specific train that I am waiting for. When a train begins pulling into the station, I … Continue reading →

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