Thanksgiving | poem

poetry

bring in the harvest, pick fall berries from an ageless tree

take on whiskey, meat, bread and water,

fill a pipe with dry tobacco, reacquaint with a sunset from the porch.

watch a woman in an apron wash soil from fat potatoes.

undress from denim, pull off leather boots covered in grassland.

feel steam rise from a metal tub in a room where family gather.

toda…