Larry D. Thomas
A KINDERGARTEN PASTELIST PRODIGY TALKS CRAFT
Larry D. Thomas
copyright 2026 by Larry D. Thomas.
All rights reserved.
This is a
right hand pointing
online chapbook.
1
My beach is nothing
but an endless sheet
of eggshell
for the flesh-colored
pastels of my feet.
2
I savor my innocence
and how it keeps me
from over-thinking
my composition.
3
I love how
my pastels
leave sunsets
on my fingertips.
4
The colors
are my best friends
so my color sense
is, of course, a party.
5
I wield
each pastel
like a surgeon
his gleaming scalpel.
6
The texture
of a pastel
against the tooth
of eggshell
makes me blush.
7
I find negative space
as beautiful
as if I
had painted it.
8
The delicate hues
of my pastels
bless my art
with subtlety.
9
I regard Day-Glo
as the trademark
of an amateur.
10
I waste no time
on whys
so I love the dickens
out of interviews.
Larry D. Thomas, a long-time and proud contributor to Right Hand Pointing, was the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. He has published twenty-five print collections of poetry and several print and online chapbooks including Flaunting Their Little Crimes: the secret lives of flowers, Right Hand Pointing 2023. Thomas resides in the Chihuahuan Desert of southwestern New Mexico.
