Poets’ Corner: Goodtimes on Thanksgiving

25 Nov Poets’ Corner: Goodtimes on Thanksgiving

On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November to be the national holiday of Thanksgiving, a day to count our blessings for the bounty in our lives, as below in this poem by beloved country commissioner Art Goodtimes.

Art being Art

It’s warm jacket weather

tending Simba’s leash

Almost lose her to a pickup

speeding by on the other side

of the county road she
suddenly veers over into

Above us the trimmed

cuticle of a moon

My first day alone

in weeks. Having Cloud

Acre’s million willow
maze all to myself

Simba