Roman J. Montemorano

CONTACT:
Email: roman.j.ryan@gmail.com
Website: romanjohnryan.com

BIO:
RomanMontemorano lives in Madison with his partner and their dog. He has been making poems for a few years and recently left the corporate world to do more writing, gardening and caring. 

Poetry

On One

Tare tare tare
Tears from the face
I’m sure that's the way
To feel

Make one life into as many
As a prism will allow
That's what pyramids
Enable

It's the opposite of ennobled
If you go the dignified way
Faded greatness
Imperial aftersnow

That's a Chernobyl
It's called fallen out
Our several headed monster
Inside this final drop

Modified Darkness

A fire dark soul and its wishes
Smoke's patina is an image machine
Beaches, mountains, dust

Petrichor sunrise and a coot herd
Ready to make spindly log legs
Into an awkward retreat
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Ahead of the day and accidental status
Above sees below on the ripple tide
Fear and heated dread

Back to bed cannot be a duck
For when webbed toes go motionless
The effortless swim goes under the lake dark sea