Prayers
In evening shadows
she finds them
in the gumption
of fallen sparrows
too young to fly,
scrambling for cover,
seeking in the spasm
of their terror
the stillness of a stone.
She finds them
gleaming in the garnet
eyes of gargoyles.
She muses about
their stirring
subtle as a pulse,
occurring for no
apparent reason,
their stirring
deep within the ink-
black darkness
of the rosebud, .
their stirring of pink,
pink at first so pale
it’s hardly pink at all.
Larry D. Thomas served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. He has published several collections of poetry, including As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems (Texas A&M University Press 2015). Journals in which his poetry has been published include The Windhover, Christian Science Monitor, Southwest Review, Poet Lore, and Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith.
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