Turkey’s on the table
With dressing, mashed potatoes,
green beans and gravy.
Soon, no room for the pecan pie.
A digital screen in the corner
Shares images every 5 seconds.
Monet.
Pissarro.
Norman Rockwell.
Cailleboite.
A much bigger flatscreen
in the living room
suggests a show will begin.
Fresh and green.
Hope forever.
Red hair. An Irish accent.
A fiddle in the distance.
John Ford. John Wayne. Maureen O’Hara.
We follow a well-marked path,
Taking the turns
With the ups
And the downs.
Thriving on the echoes
Awake and dreaming;
As we ease closer
And closer
To wanting that pie.
