Poets’ Corner: Art for Thanksgiving!

23 Nov Poets’ Corner: Art for Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving. The holiday evolved into a story of traditions old and new, a day of family, friends old and upcoming, feasting and football. While all that is good, is it good enough? Shouldn’t Thanksgiving be about more, a day to forget about horrifying headlines and simply count our blessings for the bounty in our lives, past, present and future – including, of course, our furry friends?

As below, thanks to the one and only Art Goodtimes.

Thanksgiving

My first day unencumbered
in weeks. Having Cloud Acre’s

million willow maze all to myself
after radical middle politicking up in

Telluride. Warm jacket weather
Walking Simba, Mary’s rescue dog

she gifted us – a tough little Chow
who loves to run free. But

in irrigated cattle & sheep fields
dogs at large don’t live long

Above us the trimmed cuticle of
a moon barely visible in the west

I’m tending to her leash
from our barrow ditch path

drinking in all there is to think
when she smells something

across the blacktop & lunges
onto the county road just

as a speeding pickup races
over the hill. It’s all I can do

to dig my feet in & tug her
back to safety. Giving thanks

for saving Simba, for memories of
Mary, for a blue sky Colorado day

& for all those on the Team
in this tug-of-war world