A Soft that Touches Down and Removes Itself

by David Tomaloff

A sequence as story as 21 poems. The mundane rituals of the heart placed in ourselves &others.

TROUBLE HAS A LANGUAGE

every third Friday,
we’ll supersize the kids;
they’re our only real hope,
she said, in trying to keep warm

winter is a thief,
I said—
I didn’t, just then, dare to mention
what was really in my heart:

if the rain had caught fire this very instance,
if the fire had caught fire this very day,
I’d be content to dance under foot of it
as long as "I" and "you"

First published August 1, 2011

About the author

+David Tomaloff is a very important something. His written and visual works have appeared in several chapbooks, anthologies, and in fine publications such as Connotation Press, Sundog Lit, Lost in Thought, A-Minor, and HTML Giant. He is co-author of the collaborative poetry collection YOU ARE JAGUAR, with Ryan W. Bradley (Artistically Declined Press), and he is working on another collaborative effort, this time with J. Scott Bugher, titled LEDGER & STRING. His latest chapbook, SLEEP, is forthcoming from Plain Wrap Press.

+As a lifelong musician and composer, David Tomaloff has participated in recording, production, and performance aspects of many projects including his own as a singer-songwriter as well as the entity known as The Dammitheads. His musical works have been featured in various television programs, documentaries, and independent films, including ABC’s Invasion, Oxygen’s Good Girls Don’t, MTV’s Real World Road Rules Challenge, a German zombie film titled Red Harvest, a table tennis documentary titled Niche Table Tennis (produced by Daft Films), and a video series by BMX Magazine.

+His silence can be bought. Reasonable offers accepted.

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

A series of moments and exchanges, witty communications rife with metaphor and imagery between the author and some unidentified woman, who won't take his shit, is not impressed with his verbiage or observations, but stays with him in the thing they are in, this relationship, their discourse, and the omnipresent tug-of-war we call relationships.

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[J.A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mr. Tomaloff knows how to phrase.

[Eryk · Rating 5 out of 5]

David is a poet who writes poems that will rise from the page, grab your hair, and punch you in the face. And I mean that in a good way! This collection is now presented as a Red Ceilings Press chapbook and is simply fabulous. Thank you, David, for this fine collection of poems.

[Robert Vaughan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliantly deranged! Love this book!