Having tended
their business
of death,
revved up
the chain saws
of their caws
and sawed the day
down to darkness,
the crows
take their places
in the upper-
most branches
of an old
growth pine,
converging
in the solemn
brotherhood
of their murder.
Larry D. Thomas, the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, has been privileged to be a regular contributor of poetry to the Green Hills Literary Lantern for more than twenty years. His Web site address is www.larrydthomas.com