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<\/a>Great blue heron tracks in the mud on Buffalo Bayou. Photo by Jim Olive<\/p><\/div>\n
(Houston, Texas)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Great trees grow high above it, of sun, moon, and star. spearing frogs and minnows. unscathed by toxins working their gills, oblivious of time Larry D. Thomas<\/a> lived in Houston from 1967 until 2011, when he and his wife moved to Alpine, Texas.\u00a0 An award-winning poet and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters<\/a>, he has published twenty-five collections of poetry. A major new collection, As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems<\/em>, will be published in Spring 2015\u00a0by Texas Review Press<\/a>, a member of the Texas A&M University Press Consortium<\/a>. It is available for pre-order at Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Buffalo Bayou” was first published in Literary Houston <\/em><\/a>in 2010, a collection of historical and contemporary writing about Houston edited by David Theis and published by Texas Christian University Press<\/a>, Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jan. 6, 2015 Buffalo Bayou (Houston, Texas) Great trees grow along its banks, meshing their branches high above it, sparing it the bright intrusion of sun, moon, and star. Great blue herons ripple its shallows, spearing frogs and minnows. Within its murky depths, the big gars flourish, unscathed by toxins…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,190,188,187,186,191,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frogs","category-gars","category-heron","category-larry-thomas","category-poem","category-theis","category-trees","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nalong its banks,
\nmeshing their branches<\/p>\n
\nsparing it
\nthe bright intrusion<\/p>\n
\nGreat blue herons
\nripple its shallows,<\/p>\n
\nWithin its murky
\ndepths, the big gars flourish,<\/p>\n
\nand the bloated corpses
\nof poisoned fish,<\/p>\n
\nfins, and tails,
\nsnaking their passage,<\/p>\n
\nand its irksome,
\nfutile ravages.<\/p>\n