Tag Archives: vigil

Mirror

Posted on October 9, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. At a distance, daughter falls in love with the sea’s lacy fringes and shoreline’s bubbling secrets, while her mother holds up the sky as an undivided mirror, in which every chanced glimmer is hosted and … Continue reading →

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Flicker

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We are here, but briefly, finite exhales threaded to infinite digressions, nowhere and now here minding a slip of the tongue, a merciful spell of passage shedding lightly to no known ends.

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Elegy

Posted on September 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Time out a cemetery plotted on higher ground overlooking the railroad tracks crisscrossing bouts of traffic houses accounting for lives lived in shuttered flashes the dead amounting to subtlest vigils kept in the way wind … Continue reading →

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Long Haul

Posted on October 13, 2022 by John Biscello

Grief lies here like an insomniac pining for sleep. Like scissors running dull to the touch of fate. We paper over grief its many wrecks its brittle slates with hordes of torn pages. Forget me nots band aids christ sporting … Continue reading →

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Josef Sudek

Posted on November 10, 2017 by John Biscello

It was his mantra– Hurry slowly, syllables resigned to vigil.

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