As if light actually matters : new & selected poems / by Thomas, Larry D., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas: TCU Texas poet laureate series -- Neches River -- In the Voodoo Lounge -- Twin spinsters in blue -- The laws of his kind -- Crabber -- In the nacreous hours -- Apricots -- Bach -- Flaking the slate gravestones -- In Maine -- French Quarter -- A matter of color -- The dragonfly -- Crow with red sky -- Coma -- Minotaur -- From: The skin of light -- Skin -- First, it was Santa Claus -- The winter sky -- Gibbous moon -- As if -- Dying vulture at sundown -- The crow -- Sparrow egg -- Mayflies -- The lovers -- Apache child -- Hot pink, day-glo chartreuse, and electric blue -- Palimpsest -- Stained glass -- The miners -- Black-on-black -- From: A murder of crows -- The sparrow -- Old blue jay -- Starlings -- Driftwood gull -- Hawks -- Raptor -- Raven is his favorite verb -- A dark choir -- Crow -- Both the proposition and the proof -- Caged crow -- Old crow -- He's the dark mercury -- Crows in the rain -- Unabridged -- The pure, white crow -- Were I a crow -- From: Uncle Ernest -- The worshipers -- Stained overalls -- In his dream -- White plastic knives -- Windowsill -- Deep blues -- The hawk -- Blue moon -- The faded snapshot -- Warm eggs -- The folding wings -- From: The lobsterman's dream (poems of the coast of Maine) -- The ocean -- Monhegan Island -- Winter harbor -- Dory -- Scrimshaw -- The warning -- The lobster -- The lobsterman's dream -- The lighthouse keepers -- Mainers -- Tide pool touch tank -- From: Chapbooks: The circus; Plain pine; Five lavender minutes of an afternoon; and The red, candlelit darkness (complete) -- The circus -- The big top -- The house of mirrors -- The clown -- The elephant man -- The fat lady -- Hermaphrodite -- Siamese twins -- Plain pine -- Cool water -- The dark child -- Plain pine -- The big, red rooster -- Her untowelled woods -- Five lavender minutes of an afternoon -- "Mama Sug" -- Five lavender minutes of an afternoon -- Baby horny frogs (Texas Horned lizards) -- Of loaves and fishes -- Lake Balmorhea (far West Texas) -- The red, candlelit darkness (Chisos Mining Company, early 1900s, Terlingua, Texas) -- Silver pesos -- Candy and blue denim -- The warning -- Little rivers -- The bruja -- Rawhide buckets -- The miracle -- The faces -- Like the hands of bronze-fleshed clocks -- The burning -- The dazzling burro -- The mouths -- Red -- The sounds of devils -- The screams.…”
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