Poet Profile

Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez is a Venezuelan senryū poet, cursed poet, occasional haiku poet, outlaw poet, and a modern beat poet, but he is also a splatterpunkian short-story writer and a macabre poet (as “Vampirlibido”). He is one of the Shadow Pond Journal Issue VI Touchstone Award nominees by Katherine E Winnick.

toad licking
her shaman becomes
Jim Morrison

loneliness
the bitter cost
of being myself

sixty years later
he denounces
the renowned priest

coitus interruptus a jumping spider catches one of the flies

Day of the Dead
a gravedigger toasting
to life

sleeping it off
on the sidewalk
cedar waxwing

Credits:

“toad licking” – Failed Haiku issue #102, August 2024; “loneliness” – Cold Moon Journal, August 6, 2024; “sixty years later” – The Scarred Tree, Sept. 17, 2024; “coitus interruptus” – Shadow Pond Journal issue VI, 2025; “Day of the Dead” – tsuri-dōrō Issue #21 – May/June 2024; “sleeping it off” – Password: journal of very short poetry issue 2.2, June 2025.