Aftermath

With a career spanning several artistic disciplines, award-winning artist Tom Melsen has left an indelible mark on the worlds of music, literature, and visual arts. His body of work includes several solo albums, as well as music compositions for films and documentaries. Tom Melsen has written three poetry books so far. Aftermath in 2021, Not To Be Chained To The Unstable Sky, and now there's a new book titled The Onion Did Not Make Me Cry. The Onion Did Not Make Me Cry is a collection of more than sixty new poems by Tom Melsen, balancing absurd humor with quiet melancholy. In these pages, mustaches become milestones, doors suffer existential crises, tigers fall in love, and even a stray hair in a bowl of soup can unfold into something strangely triumphant. Melsen writes with equal affection for the ridiculous and the devastating, moving seamlessly between playful imagination and intimate confession. The result is a collection that is funny, strange, vulnerable, and unmistakably human. These poems invite readers to laugh, reflect, and sometimes cry… though perhaps not because of the onion.