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Ken Tomaro

Ken Tomaro is a writer living in Cleveland Ohio whose work reflects everyday life with depression. His poetry has appeared in several online and print journals and explores the common themes we all experience in life. Sometimes blunt, often dark but always grounded in reality.
He has 4 full-length collections of poetry: Home Is Where the Headstones Are, An Angry Year, Paralysis & Potholes and Perogies (through Alien Buddha Press) available on Amazon.

8 works in Kiss My Poetry

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Poetry

Ken Tomaro

From a lower perspective

I am but a thin piece of pliable metal wrapped tightly around myself whose sole purpose is to keep it all together…

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Poetry

Ken Tomaro

In the waiting room

there is a thunderous noise of a jackhammer somewhere near accompanied by the rhythmic pounding of steel beams being driven deep into…

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Ken Tomaro

In the green, green grass

is where you’ll find the crickets making music for their mating rituals it is also where you’ll see the slithering snake and…

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Ken Tomaro

Trash man, bringer of death

trash day I’m always a little saddened on trash day— the accumulations of a lifetime tossed on the tree lawn naked and…

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Ken Tomaro

Gray skies and we’re in the clear

the gray matter in my brain and the gray matter in the sky on this rainy day melt together forming ugly gray…

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people walking on pedestrian lane during daytime

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Ken Tomaro

Ant farm

if you look out the window from the 37th floor of any building past the mayflies, or muckleheads as we like to…

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grayscale photo of people in between of white concrete structures

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Ken Tomaro

Author alley

I’m sitting at a table in the alley awkwardly talking to strangers about all these poems I have written young people, old…

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Poetry

Ken Tomaro

I am but an aphid chewing the leaves of a tomato plant and counting the days

there is a scent in the air of fresh tomatoes floating in a pot of water ready to be rinsed, cooked down…

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