Here’s a Thanksgiving story that’s better told later than lived in the moment. Dee Thompson’s poetry has appeared here before (Swimming in Darkness, How to Send Your Child to a New School). A knowledgeable and inspirational writer, Dee is the author of Adopting Alesia: My Crusade for My Russian Daughter, and her blog is a resource for all things related to adoption in general and special needs adoption in particular. Read her poem and smile at her beautiful and amusing imagery.

To avoid the summer crowds, we
vacation Thanksgiving week at the beach.
Roaring waves throw down a carpet of shells
on the darkening sand, and
threaten
the house on stilts.
Hurricane’s coming.
I picture the dead turkey flying again.