plug into confetti ballroom
cross the tropical galaxy threshold
my hair in knots
you said you loved me
but those were old threads
the champagne the mussels
like birds are distant in flight
they melt into
moonlight static energy
on dusty interstate
searching for a new equinox
each curve that embraced
the morning splendor
on the back of your neck
along the crest of the moving sea
trembled and fluttered in distant breeze
over fence onto countryside road
where jasmine whispered and muse cried
these words were never hobbies
or listless daydreams
they're midnight blues
with a million quivers of glitter dust
welcoming yesterday's page
the hidden story
the smile's echo
John Casquarelli is an English Instructor at CUNY Kingsborough in Brooklyn, New York, as well as a faculty advisor for the Kingsborough Poetry and Creative Writing Club. John received his M.F.A. in the Creative Writing program at Long Island University. He was awarded the 2010 Esther Hyneman Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in several publications including Pyrokinection, Kinship of Rivers, By The Overpass, The Mind[less] Muse, The Poetry Project Blog, The International Rebecca West Society, Having a Whiskey Coke With You, and Napalm and Novocain. His first full-length book, On Equilibrium of Song, was published by Overpass Books (2011).
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