Author
John Casquerelli
5 works
John Casquarelli is the author of three full-length collections: On Equilibrium of Song (Overpass Books, 2011), Lavender (Authorspress, 2014), and Late Evening in a Paladares (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). He is a Lecturer in Academic Writing at Koç Üniversitesi in Istanbul. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Pilgrimage Magazine, Suisun Valley Review, Expound Magazine, Artifact Nouveau, New Mexico Review, Peacock Journal, Marathon Literary Review, Route 7 Review, Black Earth Institute, River River, Panoply, and Boarder Senses.
we erased our concrete circles
Today’s chatbots blur lines of conversations
that seem void of “How are you feeling today,
old friend? It’s been too long.” The space
Laundry Day
Pitied flesh monsters where cells tango
on protein and lipid dancefloors
yet live as contradictions of our nature
Whispers of Living Dust
Recognition or (re)cognition persistent patterns
of thought energy we sometimes call self
or sometimes self-delusion. Observers,
waking up in the barangay
Jill is happy to be eating Tahô for breakfast,
Tatay finishes his morning prayers
and asks if I’ve had coffee yet.
banana bread
yellow-black caterpillar is overripe
banana. its little legs must feel like it
has walked lifetimes through wet,