Thursday, July 15, 2021

First Day In Heaven


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.





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