The Middlewesterner

Friday, May 31, 2019

WHERE & HOW

Where does
the drum

keep its
silence?

How does
it know

when to
let go?

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:01 AM

Thursday, May 30, 2019

WHEN SKY

When sky
speaks

it says
nothing

you want
to hear.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:29 AM

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

WHERE THUNDER

Where thunder
throws a darkness,

wind in the grass.
Crickets go quiet.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:35 AM

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Thunderhead

Thunderhead
in full sun.

The sadness
comes later.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:43 AM

Monday, May 27, 2019

RING ING

Ring-
ing

of the
anvil,

hammer
on steel.

Who can
say what

they want
before

they ever
need it?

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:25 AM

Sunday, May 26, 2019

STORM

Storm on the prairie.
There are no saints in heaven,
no angels among us.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:30 AM

Saturday, May 25, 2019

BECAUSE CROWS

Because crows,
autumn coming.

Believe.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:30 AM

Friday, May 24, 2019

THEY SPEAK

They speak
to both

sky and
water,

these
ospreys

and make
us say

Amen.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:00 AM

Thursday, May 23, 2019

HAWK ROUGHED

Hawk roughed
by wind

asks no
mercy,

gives none,
and none

is given.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:26 AM

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

LIGHT / THE COLOR

Light
the color of

corn tassels
at evening.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:48 AM

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

CROWS ABOVE

Crows above
the cornfield.

This rain is not

the distance
they wanted.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 10:05 AM

Monday, May 20, 2019

GREEN BELIEF

Every green screaming
thing would say

Thank you, Lord, if
green screaming things

believed in God.
Instead, it seems,

they believe in light.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:24 AM

Sunday, May 19, 2019

SOMETIMES THE GIFT

Sometimes
the gift

is image.
Sometimes

it's language.
The best

gift is
a shape,

an iron-
work

structure
to make

the perfect
thing.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:37 AM

Saturday, May 18, 2019

IF

If
you can

see it
you can

make it,
the poem.

The hard
part is

seeing.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:10 AM

Friday, May 17, 2019

WIND AND WATER

Wind
we know,

though,
we can't

see it.
Water

we see,
and can't

know.
Such is

the mystery
of wind

and water.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:40 AM

Thursday, May 16, 2019

THAT WHICH

That which
does not
exist

lays low --
shadow.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 6:41 AM

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

THE RIGHT STUFF

Not history,
not myth in

this moment.
This moment.