The Woman in an Imaginary Painting by Tom Montag

 

The Woman in an Imaginary Painting

By Tom Montag

You cannot

help falling

in love with

a certain

roundness, a

blush, her

firmness there.

You cannot

help wanting

what you can

never have.

These are the

laws we follow.

About The Author

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; Imagination's Place; Love Poems; and Seventy at Seventy. 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.