Wait long enough
the beauty of this
world will crush you.
That’s reason to
get up this morning
and reason to go
down to the river
and sing.
Photo By: arbyreed
Lauds, This Morning
by Tom Montag | Apr 8, 2015 | Poetry
About The Author
Tom Montag
Tom Montag’s books of poetry include: Making Hay & Other Poems; Middle Ground; The Big Book of Ben Zen; In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013; This Wrecked World; The Miles No One Wants; Love Poems; Seventy at Seventy and The River Will Tell You (forthcoming). His poem ‘Lecturing My Daughter in Her First Fall Rain’ has been permanently incorporated into the design of the Milwaukee Convention Center. He blogs at The Middlewesterner. With David Graham he recently co-edited Local News: Poetry About Small Towns.