Hobble Creek Review
| Montgomery Maxton |
The Next Morning
The news headline reads
SEVEN MISSING, FEARED DEAD IN CANADIAN AVALANCHE
and this time I do not panic,
unlike when
AIR CANADA CRASH KILLS ALL
because it seems my love for you
has gone, amoureux,
my French-speaking beau,
Who captured my heart in
the big apple,
who crushed it in
the season-of-pumpkins.
There on that mountain,
encased in snow,
months shy of turning
your fortieth
Turning blue with each slowing breath,
the last that will not say my name,
but will say
Meet me at my hotel in midtown at seven,
Where I will kiss you for the first time,
where we will make love later that night
for the first time, where we will wake
late the next morning,
Make love again before
wondering out into Gotham in
search of a café that
serves late breakfast.
You there in your
snow coffin,
me here in my warm bed,
making out my grocery list.
The news headline reads
SEVEN MISSING, FEARED DEAD IN CANADIAN AVALANCHE
and this time I do not panic,
unlike when
AIR CANADA CRASH KILLS ALL
because it seems my love for you
has gone, amoureux,
my French-speaking beau,
Who captured my heart in
the big apple,
who crushed it in
the season-of-pumpkins.
There on that mountain,
encased in snow,
months shy of turning
your fortieth
Turning blue with each slowing breath,
the last that will not say my name,
but will say
Meet me at my hotel in midtown at seven,
Where I will kiss you for the first time,
where we will make love later that night
for the first time, where we will wake
late the next morning,
Make love again before
wondering out into Gotham in
search of a café that
serves late breakfast.
You there in your
snow coffin,
me here in my warm bed,
making out my grocery list.
Montgomery Maxton, born in 1980 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a freelanced
photographer whose work has appeared in National Geographic Magazine
including his photograph "Barack Obama in Ault Park," and whose
photograph "Self-Portrait with My Dying Grandmother" was nominated for
their International Photography Award. A poet since sixteen, his first collection
of work, This Beautiful Bizarre, is forthcoming from Zero Hour Press. A former
resident of Columbus, Ohio and New York City, he is presently in residence on
a family farm in the rural Midwest working on his first novel.
photographer whose work has appeared in National Geographic Magazine
including his photograph "Barack Obama in Ault Park," and whose
photograph "Self-Portrait with My Dying Grandmother" was nominated for
their International Photography Award. A poet since sixteen, his first collection
of work, This Beautiful Bizarre, is forthcoming from Zero Hour Press. A former
resident of Columbus, Ohio and New York City, he is presently in residence on
a family farm in the rural Midwest working on his first novel.
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