Thanksgiving
Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos
of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds
until I just can’t stand it another second.
I am not at one with nature. Never was.
Some of the people can be fooled all of the time,
even when you yawn right in their faces.
Guests, or ghosts, have taken over the house,
lounging in the living room, watching t.v.
Ugly images of war and politics are all I see.
Cancel the rest of the holidays, please, until this
— Terence Winch
Poets Do Thanksgiving: Karen Resta (2012)
Much Depends on Dinner: Cooking Latkes with Gabriella Gershenson (2010)
Boxed in, Blue Humorous and Bleary Eyed (Bildungsroman Holiday by Jessica Piazza), (2010)
How to Chop a Fuckton of Onions (more Bildungsroman Holiday, by Jessica Piazza)(2010)
Bildungsroman Holiday (by Jessica Piazza, 2010)
Thanksgiving, 1977, Albany NY (by Stacey Harwood, 2010)
It's a Very Appalachian Hanukkah by Erica Meitner (2010)
"Put on your Yarmulka" by Erica Meitner (2010)