Lustre
- Lustre
Lorenzo Thomas, Poet: A Special Section
What does the warmth Of your hand mean That accompanies The mute slide into sleep When she feels like a shoemaker’s children All your endearments spent On lavish wit Or lyrics mailed away
Trading compliments feels Like having dinner with strangers Conversation predicted The weather, a sadness shared About the world today (Art) (land) (livestock) auction prices The polished surface of civility
Is this warmth ardor or a vital sign? Bad married love or good Clairvoyance Your hand your heart The hot comb in the radio That pulled Glenn Miller’s Orchestra Out of the sky
Lorenzo Thomas teaches American Literature at the University of Houston-Downtown. There Are Witnesses / Es Gibt Zeugen (1996) is a bi-lingual edition of his recent poems published in Germany. He is the editor of Sing the Sun Up: Creative Writing Ideas from African American Literature (Teachers & Writers, 1998) and author of Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th Century American Poetry, a critical study forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press.
