Tuesday, June 25, 2013

All this shake

photo: ralph murre


by Tom Montag


All this shake
of day and night,
that woman says;

all the lay
of shade and light;
all the bounding

silence; the green
streak of earth;
yes, the water;

yes, the sky;
all of everything
today. Amen.



~ previously published in That Woman
  (support provided by the Friends of Lorine Niedecker)