Dwelling on the Darkness

Dwelling on the Darkness Larry Thomas (bio) Monday morning, as he was driving her to work through the park, she saw them drinking from a shallow, temporary pond created by a recent rain, and exclaimed, “Look! A mallard duck and her ducklings!” When he responded that a cat would probably get the ducklings, she castigated him for always dwelling on the darkness, her spouse-poet, of the negative so capable it sometimes made her sick, the way, like a mad miner, he’d take his pick to an endless vein of anthracite for days on end seeking beauty in the blackness, turning even murder into milk for a litter of mewling kittens. [End Page 116] Larry Thomas Larry Thomas is currently Poet Laureate of Texas. He is author of ten collections of poems, the most recent being The Circus and The Skin of Light (forthcoming from Dalton Publishing). Copyright © 2009 Charles H. Rowell

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