Friday, May 29, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 29 



Sometimes the murmur
of the old man's

prayer.

Sometimes the fading
of the light.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Thursday, May 28, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 28 



Deer at the
water's edge -

right-
side-

up-

side-
down.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 27 



Drag-toe crow
low

along the road,
here and no-

where else
else he'd rather

go.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 26 



Great blue
heron

dragging
the sky

behind.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Monday, May 25, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 25 



Finally evening
winds the wind in.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Friday, May 22, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 22 



Push
against the wind,

push
against nothing.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Thursday, May 21, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 21 



How much? How far?
You cannot know.

The story starts.
Rivers flow.

You make promises
you intend to keep

and yet you don't.
Things go as things

go, and they don't
go back to zero.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 20 



Morning fields
uncurled.

Green song
of afternoon.

Crickets at
evening.

All the stars
lit bright

all night.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 19 



Ah, skunk,
the rich

aroma
of your musk

makes me
drunk.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Monday, May 18, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 18 



Bare fields and low-down
clouds -
hope has its hands full.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Friday, May 15, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 15 



The wind,
always in

a hurry to
where no

wind was.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Thursday, May 14, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 14 



Snow like
a blank sheet -

empty mind
of the mountain.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 13 



In wind like this,
the leaning things.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 12 



Even
a lovely

morning
in May

is not
without

its thistles.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Monday, May 11, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 11 



Silver sear of
lightning
in the darkening

sky -
anything you say

will be a lie.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Friday, May 08, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 8 



Small bird in the wide field -
the sky

has nothing else to say.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Thursday, May 07, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 7 



Light off
snow on the mountain.
Broken clouds


and wind holding us down.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 6 



Poets who fail
lie down into
silence.

Poets who don't
die too.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Tuesday, May 05, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 5 



Fragile,
this,

my life's
work, which

someday
someone

will have to
haul away.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Monday, May 04, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 4 



Poet's chores -
Undo the done.

Watch the hawk.
Listen to silence.

Don't turn your back.
Open the door.

Let the wind
come in,

let it come
all the way

in.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

Friday, May 01, 2015

LINES FOR MAY 1 



Cloud and shadow.
Trees and wind

in the leaves.
The afternoon

ecstatic with
whisperings.



# posted by Tom Montag @ 4:30 AM

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