Thanksgiving

125 ERYN GREEN THANKSGIVING for Maren I was happy, paradise was a physical thing Rhus typhina dissecta cutleaf Rhus typhina staghorn sumac ……………………………………………………………………… If I were dressed like the sun red-edge gold-edge Rhus typhina and ground brown and holy edge unscorched by tiller 126 Overwhelmed by the sight of —at dinner big-toothed maple and cello Big-toothed maple and western prairie smoke Hello ……………………………………………………………………… 127 The girl and the world that does this to me— Abandoned weediness moved back into prairie—errant—weediness wind in my mouth everything starts to wild up ……………………………………………………………………… 128 The girl and the world—mud salt crystals rocks water helpless going over the falls—overcome by the feeling if two people are kissing they are doing it right ……………………………………………………………………… four chords and blankets four chords and night holiness or numbness holiness four chords or blankness ...