The Middlewesterner

BECAUSE CROWS

Because crows,
autumn coming.

Believe.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:30 AM

They speak
to both

sky and
water,

these
ospreys

and make
us say

Amen.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:00 AM

Hawk roughed
by wind

asks no
mercy,

gives none,
and none

is given.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:26 AM

Light
the color of

corn tassels
at evening.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:48 AM

Crows above
the cornfield.

This rain is not

the distance
they wanted.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 10:05 AM

Every green screaming
thing would say

Thank you, Lord, if
green screaming things

believed in God.
Instead, it seems,

they believe in light.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:24 AM

Sometimes
the gift

is image.
Sometimes

it's language.
The best

gift is
a shape,

an iron-
work

structure
to make

the perfect
thing.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:37 AM