Cornucopia

The day after Thanksgiving.  The house is very clean and ordered, many thanks due to the daughter home from college.  The refrigerator is full of leftovers.  I wonder now if the crowd listening to Jesus somehow didn't need as much to eat because of the cornucopia of Jesus himself.  A new thought while the turkey is being made into soup.

We used every dish and plate,

Every piece of silverware

We own.

Somehow,

With all that food

We ate less

Than we usually do.

We talked more.

The turkey was almost forgotten

In the oven.

It collapsed in on itself

A crispy brown mass,

barely recognizable

As a baked bird.

We laughed

And ate more sweet potatoes.

I woke this morning

Wondering about the plural

Of the word cornucopia

How does a person

Pluralize abundance?

Horns (or baskets)

Full of bread and fish?

A refrigerator full of leftovers?

The beginning of turkey soup

On the stove?