I shall give thanks on this day that follows
Thanksgiving Day, and I shall give thanks
on the day that follows this one, and I hope
that I shall give thanks each day that I am able,
as long as heart and lungs and spirit will allow
and maybe even after—and maybe, even
from the grave, faint songs of thanksgiving might
be heard on bitterly cold late-November days
as snowflakes drift down on the living and the dead.
