Blue Moon: (Helena-West Helena, Arkansas)
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It sliced the horizon like the toothed, spinning blade of a silent table saw,
drawing her husband to his boat. He knew the fishing would be good that night.
She lost sight of him several yards from the river’s edge, fighting the treacherous currents,
his shrunken silhouette one with the indigo sky he bled into like ink
into a blotter. He never returned. For days, all she could eat was salads she picked at with her fork,
staring riverward through the window of a room lit with a shaft of moonglow. Marbled with veins
of mold, even the cheese she sprinkled over the fresh, torn greens, was blue. [End Page 96]
LARRY D. THOMAS, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. His most recent volume of poems is As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems (2015). Southwest Review, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Chattahoochee Review, Arkansas Review, Texas Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, Puerto del Sol, Review Americana, and Southwestern American Literature are some of the periodicals in which his poems have appeared. For his poetry he has won such awards as the Texas Review Poetry Prize, Western Heritage Award, and Violet Crown Book Award.
