Green
so bright

the wind
accepts

that spring
has come.

The sun,
honeyed.

This,
the first

day of creation.










Tom Montag is recently the author of THE BIG BOOK OF BEN ZEN (poems) and THE IDEA OF THE LOCAL (essays). He and his wife Mary founded THE WISCONSIN POET'S CALENDAR in 1982 and edited the first three years. Montag blogs his short poems everyday at: www.middlewesterner.com.