local_library Surface Tension

by Tom Montag

Published in Issue No. 221 ~ October, 2015

they call it

speaking of

 

water. We

have blue sky.

 

We have dark

soil warming,

 

here at the

edge of spring.

 

Surface tension,

they call it,

 

where we’re

on, not in.

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Tom Montag is most recently the author of In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013. He is a contributing writer at Verse-Virtual and in 2015 was the featured poet at Atticus Review (April) and Contemporary American Voices (August). Other poems are found at Hamilton Stone Review, The Homestead Review, Little Patuxent Review, Mud Season Review, Poetry Quarterly, Provo Canyon Review, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere.