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Tom Montag


Five poems from The Woman in an Imaginary Painting


These things
which take us —

shape, color,
light, loss —

does she
know them

as we do,
there where

the breeze
seems able

to touch what
touches her?


&nbsp&nbsp ∆


Her delight
would be

white, like
the rush of

nakedness,
her sadness

a rose petal
dark as blood.


&nbsp&nbsp ∆


As if
only

a faint
wash

of color
to linger

there and
there, where

her breasts
must be.


&nbsp&nbsp ∆


Her small
breasts and

the shiver
in her

symmetry,
a glow

which warms
our gaze.

What she
opened

stays.


&nbsp&nbsp ∆


Eternity
is just

this: light,
curve, the

strength of
line, her

knowing
she can

never
go home.




Tom Montag is recently the author of In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013; This Wrecked World; The Miles No One Wants; and Imagination's Place: The Old Poet Poems. His Love Poems has just come out from Architrave Press. He has been a featured poet at Atticus Review, Contemporary American Voices, Houseboat, and Basil O'Flaherty Review. Montag has been writing and publishing poetry and creative nonfiction for more than fifty years in a wide variety of little magazines. He was a founding contributing editor for The Pushcart Prize and he blogs at The Middlewesterner. With David Graham he is currently co-editing an anthology of poetry about small town America.
 
 
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