Tuesday, November 20, 2007

A Thanksgiving Poem

I don't normally post my poems to this blog, but what the heck, right? Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

On Thanksgiving

Black spasm
of starlings from
the lone spruce,
like a silenced cough or
the sudden
sloughing of each
branch’s shadow.
Mutely they
pulse among
the gusts—not like
us, walking
loud on the packed gravel,
chattering
about the spiced
sweet potatoes,
the hike up
the bluff, the time
it will take
to get home
tomorrow. No,
none of us is
so graceful but
like them,
sometimes we find
the shape of grace
in our very
gathering.

6 comments:

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miami office space said...

awesome, I love thanksgiving, because once a year i can share with all my family. they live in Europe and only for a few days i can spend my days with theme. im gonna read this poem in the next thaksgiving

miami office space said...

awesome, I love thanksgiving, because once a year i can share with all my family. they live in Europe and only for a few days i can spend my days with theme. im gonna read this poem in the next thaksgiving

pharmacy said...

I don't normally post my poems to this blog, but what the heck, right? Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

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