Milt Montague was born in New York in 1924 and still resides there, discovered poetry at 87 and has 200 published poems; now 95, he still writes daily.

Hercules
By Milt Montague

Hercules the ancient Greek Superman
was also a great lover
memorialized to this day
in the night sky

garbed in the lion skin
of the Nemean Lion
that once terrorized the countryside

he subdued the beast
with his great club

and patrols the night sky
seeking out criminals
or adventure
or amour