Thanksgiving Poem: How To

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Don’t write right away, but soon Watch the leaves and the light fully Connect – allow – relax – delight Too quick is a tourist in a selfie Taj Mahal untended over left shoulder Wait too long and the phone will ring Write a few hundred poems before – good and bad so fear of the water doesn’t keep you on shore And how about a title throwing two shadows (as Mary Oliver encourages) an easy one here with movement and the season Do not say leaves look toward the sun, an object but towards the rising of the sun, an event and more evocative of motion Note the angle of the sun so low on the horizon that is shines upwards into the twisting, twirling, falling leaves as they lift at times in slightly gusting breeze If pirouetting is what you see, bring the ballet in And gratitude, of course, and on what day

Third in the series of five Thanksgiving poems from  Leaflet: a poem progression. Written in Austin Texas, Thanksgiving 2014, re-celebrated, Canadian Thanksgiving 2020

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