As Dusk Arrives
Lucifer, carried away
with his watercolors,
darkens the clouds
into dogs of war,
greens their raised
hackles, and looses
their sopping carnage
to the wind
as the sparrows,
into whose hollow bones
God breathed life
to demonstrate
the love of Jesus,
tighten the tourniquets
of their claws, clearing
their passage to the dawn.
Larry D. Thomas is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. Among the journals in which hiss poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming are the Amethyst Review, Saint Austin Review, The Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature, Petrichor Journal, Grey Sparrow Journal, and elsewhere.
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