Poems & Photographs

 

radio flyer zen

 

crashing—

your ballroom

is a stadium;

 

fellowship-

  [there is]   =chanting.

fellowship-

     [there are]   +expectations.

 

Signals repeated/

repeating-  replete

 

an alleyway

an allegory

for a

banister

 

blindly reading

the staircase

 

making the faces

your mother told you

 

would freeze

themselves

to yours.

 

You knew better

then/as you do now

 

staring,

headlong

 

into

the sun.

 

Your boundless-

is endless]

9) is endless

is vast.

 

 

 

connotation; b. spectacular, exemplarity

 

 

 

every sentence you utter

plays like a trailer to my

soon-to-be favorite movie

 

Ode to

   the

Oxford

    comma:

 

No

Everest

is   ever

e nough.

 

 

(the)  simple,

 

  pleasures,

 

 and

       -are

 

   King.

 

[russian birich, a call]

 

 

 

Comb

 

We.

     lights.

 

 

Foxy

       parade

(un)

 style.

 

 

Shocked

        and

    sured,

 

mis-

 

      waiti ng

a b rupt ly?

 

 

 

Illiterate.

         leaves

 

 

breaks.

         new

  ground.

 

 

night

      continues

 

 

On.

    and

 

 

-falling.

 

 

 

-banner

 

 

David Tomaloff (b. 1972) | is a writer, photographer, musician, and all around bad influence | likes: jazz | hates: jazz | photography: yes | his work has appeared in fine publications such as Mud Luscious, Thunderclap!, HOUSEFIRE, Prick of the Spindle, DOGZPLOT, elimae, and many more | David Tomaloff resides in the form of ones and zeros at: davidtomaloff.com