GIVING THANKS
Meandering out of the village the car
Shudders and stops short
To let a bronze native turkey
Hurtle across the tar-top
Almost under the wheels, desperate,
Floundering into the furze.
The sacrificial victim flees
The carnage. One wants to cheer
As when Canadian geese last week
Gleaned in Farmer Burdick’s
Cornfield, undisturbed by chattering
Guns or barking curs.
(Reutemann Road poems 1960-1972)
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