Friday, February 27, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 27

Place one stone
on the pile
every day –

one today,
another one
tomorrow.

This is how
you live forever.


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Thursday, February 26, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 26

Watching the world,
I try to figure
the story unfolding;

watching myself,
I do the same.


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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 25

The poet,
like a man

collecting
stones.

The weight
soon enough

brings us to
standing still.


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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 24

Not words alone, nor
is the world enough,

but something, taut, between.


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Monday, February 23, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 23

Even here, even now,
when I speak, sometimes

I have nothing
to say and sometimes

nothing is enough.


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Friday, February 20, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 20

This morning –
not the words.

Not the sound of them,
nor what they bring.

Rather, silence.
The sound of that

and what it
leaves us with.


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Thursday, February 19, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 19

Stone to sand –
the sleeping

wisdom of
water. An

afternoon
of love,

the surprise
of it, as

the stones had
been surprised.


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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 18

Poem,
beyond

naming
and the need

to be name.


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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 17

The phrase well-turned,
like the well-turned ankle,

to take your breath away.


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Monday, February 16, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 16

Rivers run
and in the flat
places wander.

Water is
joy in summer,
a delicious

wash of it.
Delicate,
the embrace –

my hands,
her breasts,
the sun on us.


# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:37 AM

Friday, February 13, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 13

Actually, no,
I don't understand,

and every day
it seems I fall

farther behind.


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Thursday, February 12, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 12

Consider

the rocks
and stars.

If you do,
you'll do

things
differently.


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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 11

Blue stone cold shadow –
sun's a far-off memory;

February, the promise
that's never kept.


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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 10

Snow
like a waterfall

on a rock-grey
day.




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Monday, February 09, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 9

The hanging sky.
The grey day.

Wisdom is of no use
against the snow.


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Friday, February 06, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 6

Darkness
is its own

story – no
moon tonight,

no whispering,
and the stars

have scattered.


# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:37 AM

Thursday, February 05, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 5

Ah, silence.
O, sorrow.


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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 4

Bare tree. Red-tail
in its branches,
grey sky behind.


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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 3

Set yourself.
Hope is

a brush-back
pitch from God.


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Monday, February 02, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 2

It
takes what

it
takes. Push

on,
fool, push

on.


# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:37 AM

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