Like the sandhill cranes
lifting up the Sunday sky,
hope flies. Every day
turns this way, that, and won’t
turn back. You choose, or don’t.
No choice, another choice.
Set your wings and rise.
Tom Montag is most recently the author of In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013. In 2015 he was the featured poet at Atticus Review (April) and Contemporary American Voices (August), with other poems at Hamilton Stone Review, The Homestead Review, Little Patuxent Review, Mud Season Review, Poetry Quarterly, Provo Canyon Review, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere.
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