The Middlewesterner

Highway 82, Mile Marker 48

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 48

Yes, Lord,
I say

Yes
to this

thinness
in your

mountains.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:28 AM

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 55

Silence says
what silence is.

Empty creek bed
says it too.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:43 AM

Out beyond the edge
of everything, where

stars fly away, there's
nothing more for us.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:29 AM

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 82, Mile Marker 57

Around
these

mountains,
mountains.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 9:12 AM

Afternoon.
Now the heat,

wings on fire.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:37 AM

from
NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
January, 2016

Highway 2, Mile Marker 2

Where the
shadow

flies, I
fly. We

fly here.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 8:42 AM

Silence is

music too.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 7:49 AM