Tom Montag



from NOTEBOOK: NEW MEXICO
            January, 2016 - Highway 70


Near Mile Marker 351

A stone
building

collapses.

All Raven
does is

watch.



Mile Marker 368

Raven tells me
Trickster lives
in my own heart.

Trickster tells me,
Don't listen to Raven.



Mile Marker 374

Raven waiting
in the sun.

Doing nothing
is always work

and his work
is never done.



Mile Marker 386

This is not about
New Mexico,
the Trickster says.

It's about you.




Tom Montag is the author of In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013, This Wrecked World, and The Miles No One Wants. 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.
 
 
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