giving thanks

cranberry bogs-

she made cranberry sauce with honey
and a crustless pumpkin pie

she's sipping black coffee
peering at the pewter grey sky

she's listening to the grateful dead's
'sugar magnolia'

"she can wait
in a drop of dew"..she's grateful

for all the little things, all the big
things, and all the in between things--

all the lady bugs, each ivory key
every person she ever met,

the constrictive rings of saturn
colliding with the expansiveness of jupiter

how morning slips without a sound
into the bulky center of afternoon

then slides, sonorous
into the sweet custard of evening



words/photo~kate lamberg (c) '16