March 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.
THE SPACE BETWEEN
We are more
the space between
the parts
than we are
the parts.
That is to say,
we are more
nothing
than something,
more white space
than meaning.
Even the stars
know this, which
is why more
light touches us
where we're not
than where we are.
BI-LINGUAL EDITION
On the right-
hand page
my poem
translated
into English.
On the left
what I meant
to say.
DESERT WISDOM
It helps to know
the wind blows
from this direction
to that; or
you can follow
the sun as it
moves your shadow
from stone to stone.
© 2019 Tom Montag
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