Tom Formaro’s poetry takes random and intentional thoughts, glances and ear shots, and torques them until some sense of motion emerges. What occurs in this collection is “advice” that is unstable, open, and resonates in multiple directions at once. Surprises from poem to poem, line to line, and word to word. Enjoy the dance and don’t get hung up on the steps.
What Are People Saying?
Sample Poems
Advice for My Daughter
What is what—Who the fuck can
I wanted to say something about a bone
but it was thrown into a mass grave
outside the phosphorus lost city
Do you soul science until someone
calls you in with witchery—Five nights of
that should suffice unless we’re fooled
again by the salted ocean breath or
ash in the trees—Can we keep bleeding
And now the red truck rusting away
I won’t seek out death wearing a bow tie
Will you unwind the gamboge sky
I asked Poppa once but we twiced the third
It never could have been otherwise
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So You Want to Be Cool?
Find rain and multitude
Sequence self-plotting wildness
Tangle texts without quorum
Mine turbulence for incomplete recognition
Follow edges but not backwards
Check reverence and unwitnessed solitude
Interpret inertia instinctively
Reverse real art in parallels
Show secrets too soon retroactively
Transact fantastic or meanwhile potential
Vary proof of intimacy or not at all
Retain partial pages or complete forests
Figment machinations with morphemes
Persist at the heart of intent
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