October 2018
Poetry is a lonely business, but I have a friend who plays guitar, and when I play bass with him, I find community. My most recent book is In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013 and I've had recent poems in Hummingbird, Atticus Review, Hamilton Stone Review, and other literary magazines. I'm honored to serve as managing editor of the Lorine Niedecker Monograph Series, What Region? I blog as The Middlewesterner (www.middlewesterner.com), and have put up at least five little poems a week since mid-2008.
THE POET
Often at the edge
of something
you can't quite touch.
As Chinese soldier.
As Roman
gladiator
at the end of his
struggle. Now
a man hauling
salt across the wide
Sahara.
You go so far
and you go farther,
you know there's
no going back.
© 2018 Tom Montag
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