Featured PoemFull Table
Eleven years Plus five months ago Seventeen Mothers and fathers Sons and daughters Friends And friends of friends Squeezed elbow to elbow Knee to knee Around the new table With the extra leaf. We added one long folding table and One card table, Cobbled together enough chairs, Although some weren't really chairs at all. Two cats prowled underfoot While a sister wrestled a Twenty two pound bird in the kitchen. Three bottles of wine or maybe more Opened, consumed, discarded. A father A brother A daughter A friend. Both cats. Some deaths were slow and painful Others sudden and tragic. One was not known for quite some time. A wife and a friend Moved one thousand miles away, Though not together and Not at the same time. Three milennials, Sons of the sister, scattered. Another son drifting, lost. A son's girlfriend is now A daughter Some might add "in-law" But I don't need laws To tell me who is family And who is just passing through. A granddaughter Takes her place by my side No extra leaf No extra table No mismatched chairs. A small gathering. A full table nonetheless. Vertical Divider
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