Bodyscript

Body be thy name as prayer made flesh. As prayer marry flesh. Flesh-prayer reaped in daily chronicles of sunlight, flesh exhales us into hospitable swaths and regions of dark, flesh as the ultimate wheelbarrow, sturdy and stable. Until it is not. Tissue withers and disintegrates. Organs go to pot. Flesh becomes homemade religion in ruins, yet remaining sacred in its dismissal and erosion. Process is change. Is the set of keys you are always being given whether you take them or not. Once accepted, these become the keys to the kingdom. Flesh cries out in wolfish hunger for other flesh, for additional flesh in which to bury, mantle, and merge. Flesh cries out like a newborn with high noon sun peppering its skin, as it toddles dumbly through the world with placeless wonder at its core. Flesh and body be thy conjoined name and signature, a prayer made animate for a limited breadth of time.

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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