THIS HOUSE by Tom Montag

 

Stillness
like smooth water,
like an empty field.

Silence
is the starting point,
the place where motion

becomes the singing
in your small bowl.

POET’S COSMOLOGY by Tom Montag

 

Let this be
your measure:

the speed at
which we fly

towards darkness.
Your money

means nothing.

 

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Tom Montag is the author of In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013. He has been a featured poet at Atticus Review, Contemporary American Voices, Houseboat, and Basil O’Flaherty Review, and received Pushcart Prize nominations from Provo Canyon Review, Blue Heron Review, and The Lake.