The Middlewesterner

LIGHT / THE COLOR

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

If
you can

see it
you can

make it,
the poem.

The hard
part is

seeing.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:10 AM

Wind
we know,

though,
we can't

see it.
Water

we see,
and can't

know.
Such is

the mystery
of wind

and water.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:40 AM

That which
does not
exist

lays low --
shadow.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 6:41 AM