Tag Archives: words

Disturbances

Posted on December 19, 2023 by John Biscello

Write Do Not Disturb on a strip of masking tape and apply the strip to your forehead and stare at yourself and the message in the mirror before removing your head and leaving the tape where it is (you, now … Continue reading →

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Ship

Posted on December 18, 2023 by John Biscello

Be alone in small solitude in a room. Place votive candles in a scale model of a famous ship, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Titanic. Close your eyes. See yourself on the ship mingling with the other passengers. Listen … Continue reading →

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Town Square

Posted on December 17, 2023 by John Biscello

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Dilate

Posted on November 27, 2023 by John Biscello

Audio and text versions of my piece, “Apocalypse Now & Again” appearing in the inaguaural online issue of Dilate Magazine. ABOUT “This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends; … Continue reading →

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Cafe

Posted on September 12, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Words, well-warmed by the soft buttery spread and halo of naked bulbs– In tenderest solitude, texts run on, deviant, unfinished, bare to the trespasses of touch and longing.

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Devil and Saxman

Posted on March 23, 2023 by John Biscello

(Excerpt from None So Distant, novel in progress) The devil on the side of the highway got tired of standing and sat down on his briefcase waiting for history to catch up or to pass away altogether. It didn’t … Continue reading →

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Rock and a Hard Place

Posted on December 30, 2022 by John Biscello

“In a world like this one, it’s difficult to devote oneself to art body and soul. To get published, to get exhibited, to get produced often requires ten or twenty years of patient, intense labor. I spent half my life … Continue reading →

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Torch Song

Posted on December 13, 2022 by John Biscello

From the series, “Interior Lighting for Lost Cinema”

Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry | Tagged cindy sherman, photography, sorcereress, spoke word, torch song, voice, words | Leave a comment

Solitary Expansion

Posted on December 9, 2022 by John Biscello

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Dust

Posted on December 8, 2022 by John Biscello

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