Seasonal Greetings: A Thank-you Poem
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‘Twas two weeks before X-“mess”,
but we weren’t merry.
Those holiday horrors
are ancient and hairy.
Our memories go back
much farther than words;
we try to be grown-ups,
but troubles in herds
invade our home,
which is usually secular,
and raise our anxiety
to levels molecular.
Such was our sad state
when a package from Adda
showed up on our doormat
with great gay bravada.
Inside sat a well-swaddled
jar of French cassis
mis en terre, récolté
from his farm dans la Suisse.
Fresh sourdough bread,
with sweet butter well-slathered,
received homemade jam
from what Adda had gathered.
We gobbled those tartines,
so brimming with sweetness,
and our sorrows took wing
as we sighed with repleteness.
O magical jam,
with your flavor so Euro,
you dispelled from our brows
that historical furrow.
Let SoCal proclaim,
as we screw the lid tight,
Happy Solstice, dear Joseph,
we will praise every bite!
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Karen Greenbaum-Maya
Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a retired clinical psychologist, former German major and restaurant reviewer, and three-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her work has appeared all over the place. Her work in fairy tales and dream interpretation, and her obsession with Kafka and flirtation with Buber have led her inevitably to prose poems. Her collections include three chapbooks, Burrowing Song, Eggs Satori, and, Kafka’s Cat (Kattywompus Press), and, The Book of Knots and their Untying (Kelsay Books). Bamboo Dart Press publishes The Beautiful Leaves and Eve the Inventor.
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