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A poem for Thanksgiving by Joseph O’Brien
Thanksgiving
…et nihil mihi deerit.
The living room is over-heated, like a gaping kitchen oven-door,
Long past the payoff in savory odors resulting from bowls of color.
The back parlor launches its many campaigns of hushed conversation.
Sunlight glistens farewells through liquor decanters on the piano top,
A gamut of ambers standing at attention, surrounding one deep purple port.
The house slows down to siphon from the levels of these,
Registering like primitive thermometers, exhibited like an exquisite
Array of laboratory devices experimenting with alien elements,
Measuring fevers and hungers, reducing all of November
To a memory the moment all time stops: 4 p.m., Thanksgiving Day.
Then, the clocks charge on, the last plate begins to shine again
And teacups and saucers collect like seashells in children’s arms.
We give thanks the fading sun is freezing the air on the front porch
Where the crisp twinge of nicotine allows us to ignore
The somnolent effect of tryptophane in our veins—give thanks
For the play of alcohol in our brains, for lack of want—and loss of wit
On our various lusts. We move inside, through a relative crowd, to her:
And remind ourselves that, safe and long ago, her pearled neckline
And those mermaid eyes, almond-shaped, swimming rich with emerald,
Were once the subject of grave adolescent scrutiny;
That when brother brought her home from college one November,
She would someday be his wife. Now, from behind curtains of smoke
Rising from ashtrays, old men recall their small scenes of industry—
As if their knuckled cigars would become the mercurial actions
Of history. Soon enough, aunts, cousins, in-laws, all tramp to the front door
And march themselves into coats and hats. Yes, we give thanks,
Clean to the bone, for remnant drops in brandy snifters,
For joking with sister-in-law about her pregnant belly,
And for that same brother on the phone, long-distance, telling us
About his eating a turkey in the Middle East with the President.
Joseph O'Brien
Here's something you might be interested in.
A poem for Thanksgiving by Joseph O’Brien
Thanksgiving
A poem for Thanksgiving by Joseph O’Brien
Thanksgiving
…et nihil mihi deerit.
The living room is over-heated, like a gaping kitchen oven-door,
Long past the payoff in savory odors resulting from bowls of color.
The back parlor launches its many campaigns of hushed conversation.
Sunlight glistens farewells through liquor decanters on the piano top,
A gamut of ambers standing at attention, surrounding one deep purple port.
The house slows down to siphon from the levels of these,
Registering like primitive thermometers, exhibited like an exquisite
Array of laboratory devices experimenting with alien elements,
Measuring fevers and hungers, reducing all of November
To a memory the moment all time stops: 4 p.m., Thanksgiving Day.
Then, the clocks charge on, the last plate begins to shine again
And teacups and saucers collect like seashells in children’s arms.
We give thanks the fading sun is freezing the air on the front porch
Where the crisp twinge of nicotine allows us to ignore
The somnolent effect of tryptophane in our veins—give thanks
For the play of alcohol in our brains, for lack of want—and loss of wit
On our various lusts. We move inside, through a relative crowd, to her:
And remind ourselves that, safe and long ago, her pearled neckline
And those mermaid eyes, almond-shaped, swimming rich with emerald,
Were once the subject of grave adolescent scrutiny;
That when brother brought her home from college one November,
She would someday be his wife. Now, from behind curtains of smoke
Rising from ashtrays, old men recall their small scenes of industry—
As if their knuckled cigars would become the mercurial actions
Of history. Soon enough, aunts, cousins, in-laws, all tramp to the front door
And march themselves into coats and hats. Yes, we give thanks,
Clean to the bone, for remnant drops in brandy snifters,
For joking with sister-in-law about her pregnant belly,
And for that same brother on the phone, long-distance, telling us
About his eating a turkey in the Middle East with the President.
Joseph O'Brien