Thomas Lux Short Poems
Famous Short Thomas Lux Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Thomas Lux. A collection of the all-time best Thomas Lux short poems
by
Thomas Lux
Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone.
It's all
over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail.
And you,
your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing.
You did, you loved, your feet
are sore.
It's dusk.
Your daughter's tall.
by
Thomas Lux
One wave falling forward meets another wave falling
forward.
Well-water,
hand-hauled, mineral, cool, could be
a kiss, or pastures
fiery green after rain, before
the grazers.
The kiss -- like a shoal of fish whipped
one way, another way, like the fever dreams
of a million monkeys -- the kiss
carry me -- closer than your carotid artery -- to you
by
Thomas Lux
Early germ
warfare.
The dead
hurled this way look like wheels
in the sky.
Look: there goes
Larry the Shoemaker, barefoot, over the wall,
and Mary Sausage Stuffer, see how she flies,
and the Hatter twins, both at once, soar
over the parapet, little Tommy's elbow bent
as if in a salute,
and his sister, Mathilde, she follows him,
arms outstretched, through the air,
just as she did
on earth.
by
Thomas Lux
How, in the first place, did
they get torn-pulled down hard
too many times: to hide a blow,
or sex, or a man
in stained pajamas? The tear blade-shaped,
serrated, in tatters.
And once,
in a house flatside to a gas station,
as snow fell at a speed and angle you could lean on,
two small hands (a patch of throat, a whip
of hair across her face)-
two small hands
parting a torn shade
to welcome a wedge of gray sunlight into that room.