January 2019
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.
POETRY
Poetry is
air and light,
the white
space between
the little
I know and
what I don't.
WAVE OR PARTICLE
There and
not there
in the
after-
glow of
creation
until we
finish our
calculations.
then not there
or there
as the case
may or
may not be
and the
stars live
with this
uncertainty.
BIRDS
on a wire.
They say
Play
these notes.
© 2018 Tom Montag
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