Tom Montag wrote the poem in response to a photograph by Marja-Leena Rathje, who then crafted the postcard.

Ren Powell made this card with an image by Mikey G Ottawa. Compare Emma Passmore’s treatment of this image in “last night I dreamt of circles” and Nathan Horowitz’s in “fisheye” — all three were winners in our second contest.

Tom Montag wrote the poem in response to an image from Marja-Leena Rathje, who then made and sent us this card.

Photograph by Marja-Leena Rathje and words by Tom Montag, who blogs as The Middlewesterner. The photo was chosen and manipulated in response to the poem.

Photograph by Marja-Leena Rathje and words by Tom Montag, who blogs as The Middlewesterner.
The poem was written in response to the image.