JOHN MONTAGUE PASSES
(1929- 2016)

The mature Irish
nature and nationalist poet
who composed
extended lines of sequences
as John Montague
passes away
this December
born in Brooklyn
we remember
his poetry pieces
and solo harmonies
hearing verbal echoes
and liberal assonance
met Robert Penn Warren
John Berryman
and Saul Bellow
by an academic chance
lived and died
in Nice, France.