Today's poem is by Rennie Ament

The New England Girl's Song About Thanksgiving Day
       

Unfollow the river and burn the wood.
Let sleigh carry horse for once.

Get odd like horses lying down,
their apricot-sized nostrils.

Road stripped of necessity,
stay down, grow snake-steering—

slither off animal attributes.
If you say lamb, I say hawk.

If you say, You act like a hawk,
I put on lamb and preen superior

softness. Wet snow for breakfast,
pie for music: they await

the final verse, where grandma laps
around the yard, all her old rapes jingling.

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from Mechanical Bull
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission