A Poem by John Casquarelli

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).