Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published several award-winning collections of poetry, including As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems, issued by Texas Review Press (Member, Texas A&M University Press Consortium) in 2015 and selected as a 2015 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards Finalist. His website is larrydthomas.com

“Brothers” | all roads will lead you home | 5

“Ex-Nuns, Crabbing” | all roads will lead you home | 4

“Until He Saw Their Mother” | all roads will lead you home | 3

“The Draft” | all roads will lead you home | 1

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