First, a poem:
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
knot can be untied and our hearts released.
-- Terence Winch
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How to Chop a Fuckton of Onions (more Bildungsroman Holiday, by Jessica Piazza)(2010)
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A Poem for Thanksgiving (by Martha Silano, 2009)
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A Poem for Thanksgiving Week (by Laura Orem, 2009)
Venerdi Nero (?) by Moira Egan (2009)
Happy Thanksgiving (2009 - photograph)
"We Gather Together" (2009 - video)
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Your Brain on Turkey and Fixings (by Martha Silano, 2008)
Live Poetry Blogging on Thanksgiving (by Sharon Mesmer, 2008)
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Live Thanksgiving Blogging 12:26 pm (by Sharon Mesmer, 2008)
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Pre-Thanksgiving Emergency Narrowly Averted (by Martha Silano, 2008)
This post first appeared on Thanksgiving 2011
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