The Middlewesterner

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Highway 2, Mile Marker 8

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 2, Mile Marker 8

Another
red hawk
in sun

above this
hard land.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:34 AM

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (29)

Not one crow
but all of them,

dark companions.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:23 AM

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 85

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 85

These guys
like to DRIVE

big pick-ups.
Like to drive

BIG pick-ups.
Like to drive

big PICK-UPS.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:27 AM

Monday, July 09, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (25)

A line of trees,
edge-markers, a

wind break, sign of
hope where the green

whispers gather.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:39 AM

Sunday, July 08, 2018

Hope, New Mexico

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Hope, New Mexico

Hope
holds

on.

It has

to.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:11 AM

Friday, July 06, 2018

Highway 82, Mile Marker 80

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 80

The ground
the sky

the ground
the mountain

sun.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:27 AM

Thursday, July 05, 2018

GYPSY POET TOUR (20)

A fellow tells me
a sad story
I don't want to hear:

seven teenagers killed
when their van rolled here.

"It was so bad,
some of them were
unrecognizable."

Now I'm telling you.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:39 AM