June 2024
Tom Montag
theoldmonk85@gmail.com
theoldmonk85@gmail.com
Author's Note: "The Woman in an Imaginary Painting" was a big project, finished now, I believe, but with many poems still to see print. One hopes imagination is enough, but it seldom is, yes? We keep trying.
There Is Blue
There is blue,
a scrape of it,
not shadow.
The light is
not afraid.
The woman
does not
turn from us.
She does not
drop her gaze.
from The Woman in an Imaginary Painting
If There Were
If there were
a window, if
we could see
out of it, if
the garden is
flowering in
full sun, would
we notice
that she has
blushed, that she
seems to love
us, that her
silence says
more than words?
from The Woman in an Imaginary Painting
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