Basking

The Thanksgiving that was... and wasn't. I wouldn't have it any other way.

As I bask

In the glow of Thanksgiving,

The un-turkeyed Thanksgiving

The cranberry-less

Thanksgiving,

I see the cats

In a different light.

I see this morning

In a different light.

The woman in red

Is alive

Across the way

Ready to feed the ducks

When snow comes again.

As I bask

Despite the head cold,

As I bask in the glow

I am here

You are there

Turkeys and cranberries

Will most likely

Be on sale

This week.

The woman across the way

Awaits her ducks.

Thanksgiving and coffee

Fun fact for today:  Ethiopia has a temperate climate, and it is the place coffee originated.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey in the oven

We rearrange the house

For guests.

We each

Have our own pace.

It will all happen

Before 4:30.

Over coffee

We read the history

Of Ethiopia.

Coffee began there.

We raise our mugs

In honor

Of Ethiopia.

We hope the turkey

Will be done in time.

Thanksgiving requirements

There are requirements for Thanksgiving dinner.  Turkey... yes of course, though I understand there are many households which do not celebrate with turkey or cranberries in any form.  My daughter is vegetarian so we'll figure something with seitan for her.  Thanksgiving requires that there is something good for everyone, often involving memories of past Thanksgivings.  Usually it involves food... and lots of it.  My son will stay in Minnesota and celebrate up there.  He is also a fan of canned cranberry sauce with the ridges left in place.

We have figured the food

For Thursday. 

My beloved requires

Sweet potatoes mashed with orange juice.

I require pomegranate seeds and grapefruit

In the green salad.

Our daughter requires

Canned cranberry sauce

With the marks of the can

Left intact.

She also requires

That we eat at home this year.

Last year the refrigerator

Was in the living room.

We had no kitchen

To speak of

Then.

Now

We speak of it often.

A year*s time brings with it

A lot of change.

Still

Some things are required

To stay the same.

Prescience

It*s all tied together.  Now you see it.  Now you don*t.  Still... it will always come 'round again.

It*s all tied into

Thanksgiving

Secular

Sacred

Thanksgiving.

How did I not see

The connection of end times

And beginning again,

Always

Beginning again?

Indeed

I*m sure I must have written this

Before.

The Church
Society
Someone
in their prescience

Sandwich Thanksgiving between

Christ the King

And Advent 1.

The final Thursday

Of November,

The harvest gathered in,

The checkout guy

In the grocery store

Telling us the story

Of wild turkeys being so much

More flavorful

I saw it on PBS

He said

The combination of his Hawaiian shirt

And dreadlocks

And wild turkeys melding

With the blue sky day

After church.

It*s all tied into

Thanksgiving

Doncha know?

Thanksgiving

Beginnings

Endings

Hawaiian shirts and dreadlocks

Wild turkeys

And oh

Simply everything.