First Sunset at Sea
As soon as Sun
stepped one massive,
gilded ankle
into the sea,
Moon and Venus
peeped out their heads
and we all watched,
wondering how
Ocean didn't
smolder; how this
frail, mortal heart
didn't spark, then
burst, into flame
karla k. morton
karla k. morton is a National Heritage Wrangler Award winner, a Spur Award, and a Foreword Indies National Book Award winner. She’s a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and on the historic 1914 Shuler Theater Restoration Committee. She’s the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate and Nominee for the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.