Photo by Josue Cedeno

Intersections

Truth Thomas

(for Melani N. Douglas, Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Fred Joiner)

At the American Poetry Museum
on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue
Southeast, on a snow plow rumbling
night, art wanders in off the street
to hold its own hand, like a dazed
tornado survivor, and looks around
as if in search of missing kin who
never made it to the storm cellar.
Pictures and poets greet it at the door…

For full poem, click on link below.

Blue Lotus Review

http://www.bluelotusreview.com/truth_thomas.html

Truth Thomas – photo by Melanie Henderson

The People’s Book Prize

http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/book.php?id=573

Review

Truth Thomas’ Bottle of Life makes us face up to the gun barrel pointed at our head on Bodymore’s mean streets, yet an ocean away,poems like “Holy War” make us try to figure who is really the holy one–the dead Palestinian or dead Israeli lost to violence. The literary canon is referenced in this collection, and equated to a cabbie, driving by as if blinded by the color of a black man’s skin. Also, there are love poems to lesbians in this book, being appreciated from head to toe as a real people. Bottle of Life is worth imbibing for it is life blood–so fragile and precious. It is the poetic draught that keeps us running, and Truth Thomas knows that well. –Mike Clark, Little Patuxent Review

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