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.
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