artwork: ralph murre
At Bus Stops on Thanksgiving Day
by
Donal Mahoney
Before
dawn, people
who
work on Thanksgiving Day
wait
in the wind for a bus
to
arrive or maybe not.
It's
too cold to talk
so
the people stand
like
minutemen and plan
a
revolution that would shock
nice
families who drive by later,
children
tucked in scarves
and
mittens, laughing
all
the way to Nana's house
for
turkey, gravy, stuffing
and
later in the day
a
ballerina of whipped cream
twirling
on pumpkin pie.
Thanksgiving
is the day
and
sorts its servers
from
the served.
~
first published in Eye on Life Magazine
