The world displayed in the poems of ThomasLux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promisedland, a region where turtles languish of thirst,where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where amoving car hits a moving moose and bothsurvive, where what tends to terrify us tendsalso to make us feel safe, where rattlesnakesfeel at home,' where your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams.