Tag Archives: travel

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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Two

Posted on September 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Side by side, farmers reigning symmetry in repose– The sky, blue to the taste, with chalky traces of cloud powdering the empty course– Images of the floating world persist in material means and long takes … Continue reading →

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Web

Posted on August 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We, lucent beads of rain, clinging indefinitely to a spider’s web— the climate of ephemera.

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Born Yesterday

Posted on November 24, 2022 by John Biscello

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Round Trip

Posted on September 14, 2022 by John Biscello

There is a slow lasting burn on the road to heaven which admits meekness as a course of rightful inheritance, as a ringed torch song for reentry into the self dispossessed.

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Transience

Posted on October 9, 2020 by John Biscello

She never did go anywhere, you know? Some ghosts become totemic stand-bys for the lives they never lived, for potentialties that passed, in solemn wisp, from dream to dream, then fade. #44 from Untitled Film Poems Image by Cindy Sherman

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Transients

Posted on June 14, 2019 by John Biscello

She was a matter of falling, and scaling the air, and I, street to her clouds, abandoned myself to growing realer and realer in vivid contrast to her sofly fading out and in.

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Paris

Posted on May 28, 2018 by John Biscello

I have never been to Paris, and so I must write about my time there, how Hemingway threw the gauntlet at my feet and challenged me to an armwrestling match three times, beating me each and every time, and Hemingway … Continue reading →

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Suitcases

Posted on March 11, 2018 by John Biscello

Traveling light, dark, baggage claimed, left behind, she ordered her life, simply, through metaphor and blithe repetitions, expecting very little in return. (Photo by Heather Ross)

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Road

Posted on March 8, 2018 by John Biscello

Waiting, still, waiting, the unbearable lightness of life between homes. (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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