Daniel Zomparelli
he/him
Daniel Zomparelli is the author of Davie Street Translations, and Rom Com co-written with Dina Del Bucchia. His collection Everything Is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and won the ReLit Short Fiction Award. He co-edited Queer Little Nightmares with David Ly. His latest book of poetry Jump Scare will be published spring of 2024.
About Me.
Lasagna, Slow: an instructional sonnet (2021) by Daniel Zomparelli
What you will need: the way depression
rounds our bodies, and this too
is love, crushed tomatoes, garlic, basil,
ricotta, mozzarella, ways to stay.
Start here, where garlic pressed into you, oil crackles, I wanted to say
this is about the time it takes for me to our two cans of tomatoes
crushed,
stir basil, wait. Nostalgia is a time construct you can't count in pasta
sheets, layer. Cheese is the quickest way to a man's heart; melt.
Cook for thirty minutes at 350, let me tell you why this is how i say
I love you, because bubbling over I never was good at spoken
words.