Tag Archives: writer

Bask

Posted on February 23, 2018 by John Biscello

Rapt, in gratitude, the writer fasting on silence, and slimmest wisps, to gain Beauty’s favor and superlative bask, beyond recognition.

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Slingshot

Posted on February 20, 2018 by John Biscello

From a distance, within, the story of a writer’s life in the day of fiction’s living wake.

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Woolf’s Bane

Posted on January 25, 2018 by John Biscello

In honor of Virginia Woolf’s birthday. Through a glass, darkly, splitting of selves by prism– Wide berth for one’s I.

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Venetian Noir

Posted on January 19, 2018 by John Biscello

Venetian Noir. Because every writer needs at least one identity crisis and an alter ego to match.

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Dive

Posted on November 12, 2017 by John Biscello

Writer’s deep sea task, how to breathe underwater– Air of faith, no mask.

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Virginia Woolf

Posted on November 9, 2017 by John Biscello

Through a glass, darkly, splitting of selves by prism– Wide berth for one’s I.

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Steinbeck

Posted on October 20, 2017 by John Biscello

Wrath and Discontent, kindling to pen’s holy fire– Love’s labor reformed.

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Enigma

Posted on September 29, 2017 by John Biscello

Modeling the glyphs of a soul’s swooning cursive– Who will transcribe me?

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Franz Kafka

Posted on September 8, 2017 by John Biscello

Anxiety’s veil, torn to shreds in the ether– abyss staring back.

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James Joyce

Posted on September 7, 2017 by John Biscello

Volumes of silence bearing the heft of language– Exile’s homecoming.

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