Is Is
what it
is. This
is not
symbol.
I am not
moving
ideas
about
these lines.
The birds
speak truth
to the wind
as plain
as they can.
It does
not mean
something
else. It
is what
they say
it is.
Don’t look
for any-
thing more.
Tom Montag is the author of In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013, This Wrecked World, and The Miles No One Wants. He has been a featured poet at Atticus Review, Contemporary American Voices, Houseboat, and Basil O’Flaherty Review.