Tag Archives: pain

Hips

Posted on September 16, 2025 by John Biscello

I can no longer remember where I was when it happened, only that it happened, it must have happened. Sometimes we cry silent recordings in our bones, or guts, or maybe it is our hips that are the primary storehouses … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged body, daughter, grief, hips, memory, mother, pain, Prose, recording, story, words | Leave a comment

Burn

Posted on November 13, 2017 by John Biscello

The out of womb blues, torch song on code red alert– Slow burning for home.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged birth, blues, burning, death, dreams, existential, great sadness, home, John Biscello, love, pain, poem, Poetry, sorrow, womb, yearning | Leave a comment

Braid

Posted on November 6, 2017 by John Biscello

How quickly we forget the nearness of grief, and remember, with rated thorns, a past nettled to braid.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged ache, dream, grief, heartbreak, John Biscello, nettled, pain, past, poem, Poetry, rose, thorns | Leave a comment

Orphans

Posted on November 6, 2017 by John Biscello

In all the children’s mouths, so many screamless nights amounting to timelocked dreams, adopting a feverish hue and deep freeze all at once, the birth of orphans who wander in fugues, haunting their own lives, seeking blessed reunion with who … Continue reading →