Patienting
patienting
it will never be an obsolete gerund/ living/ this whatever it is/ this breathing of a run-on sentence far more than just labeling/ far more than just painting/ far more than just counting to ten regarding pain and its defining/ so much is repeating/ innards by innards by patient eyes retreating/ surgeons were once barbers with poles/ striping the cutting-edge/ lancing pulling and setting/ people were beings breeding/ like now/ and stopped breathing/ the future will eventually be here blushing/ the present is the gift/ gifting/ the moment is stretching/ the daily breading/ state-of-the-art/ now/ amidst the leaves dangling/ selves/ all should be remembering/ distant buds to be boomeranging/ here now/ here now/ not just wording or wearing a mask hiding/ but bandaging/ planting/ giving/ waiting for the blooming/ healing/ yes/ loosening sheets of the situating sky/ not even seeing sky to be knowing/ heaven is at the ceiling/ and here just as well/ this present patient you are patienting/ a landing/ onto the runway in front of you/ clear as the heart near the smudged badge between the softening pleating of your white coat
Joe Bisicchia
Joe Bisicchia writes of our shared dynamic. An Honorable Mention recipient for the Fernando Rielo XXXII World Prize for Mystical Poetry, he has written five published collections of poetry. He also has composed over three hundred individual works that have been published in over one hundred publications such as California Quarterly, pacificReview, The Concrete Desert Review, Balloons Literary Journal, Triggerfish Critical Review, Sheepshead Review, Gone Lawn, The Tiger Moth Review, Agape Review, and more. The former broadcaster is director of public affairs for Virtua Health in New Jersey and is a Practicing Excellence certified clinician coach. He earned his BA at La Salle University and is currently on the MFA track at Lindenwood University. To see more of his work, visit JoeBisicchia.com.