June 2023
Author's Note: Three more short poems from my time at Wishin' Jupiter Ranch in north-central Nebraska in October, 2022. Each moment is every moment when the world stands still for us. It was a wonderful week -- wind and sand, the river and the cottonwoods. Say yes.
The sun walks
long shadows
across the hayfield.
The coyotes
wait their turn.
~
Morning light
on the old cottonwoods --
they have seen everything.
Autumn leaves fall.
This moment is all moments.
~
Cottonwoods
tossing their gold coins --
the splashing of silence.
~
©2023 Tom Montag
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