Thomas A. Thomas is a poet, photographer, and editor. His 2024 book, My Heart Is Not Asleep, was nominated for a Pushcart, as individual poems have been since 2022. Thomas, nominated for Best Spiritual Literature, 2025 & 2026, is a Finalist in the 2025 Washington State Book Award for Poetry.
Sunrise is nothing butthe thinnest red linealong the burnt horizon Moon is nothing buta cool pearl tucked in blueclouds, sinking westward I am nothing but a shadow,an inhalation, an exhalationsomewhere between.
to share with you the gleam on a harbor seal’s eyeas she and I watch silently the sunrise,afloat together, me in my kayak, she at reston her belly, motionless on the Salish Sea, and that we hear a heron croak and fly
There are times when I feel trapped in time. And this is one of those times, the year 2020, a time in the impossible future I expected not to be alive to see, and the month is August and August is