Cassandra Passarelli

Cassandra Passarelli has a creative writing PhD from Exeter University (on the overlap between Buddhist concepts and short stories) and held a lectureship in creative writing. She is taking care of her almost hundred-year-old mother on a Greek Cycladic island. Her first collection, ‘The Three Marks of Existence’, is forthcoming with Sea Crow Press.

Cassandra Passarelli

Turning Circles

I. Canopy: Muj/ throne: q’alib’aj/ flute-bone: su’ b’aq Isaac fell sick on New Year’s Day. Behind jaguar, hyena, and conquistador masks, neighbors danced like marionettes and shook chinchines to the marimba. I knew what would follow like I knew the weight of my son’s body. The first volador climbed four wooden ladders and wound rope […]