Claritas – a poem by Larry D. Thomas

Claritas


The rising sun this morning is wild,
striking everything it touches into fire.
  
It’s as if each pellucid piece 
of the wind-bell were scrubbed
 
for hours on end with Windex, 
to give each tinkling of glass 

against glass a savage purity:
each pellucid piece pendulous
 
in the early breeze and clear 
as the interior of diamonds:
 
this morning a tapestry
stitched with strands of glass

dazzling the lead crystal
chalices of our eyes.

Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, has published twenty-three print collections of poetry and several poetry chapbooks, both in print and online. His poems have been published in Amethyst Review, St. Austin Review, Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith, and elsewhere. Buttonhook Press recently brought out his online chapbook, Letting the Light Work: Poems of Mexico, and two online poetry pamphlets, Gems and Bestiary: Far West Texas.