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Thanks again for breeze stirred ginkgo leaves
adrift in silence to the sunlit sidewalk;
and for a yellow lawn.
for twin cousins who come each year with great aunt Lilly;
weighted down with pecan pie bread pudding;
with oysters mosca and peanut butter cake.
Thanks for another day,
for time to listen.
thanks for knowing to sit still and listen.
for baby sisters who look like dad
who looked like great grandmother.
Thank you,
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And thanks for thin crusted pizza shared with a beautiful lady
thanks for the quietness of this afternoon
thanks that today's news makes me weep
for the sound of sisters voice calling from the coast
for memory of these trees before they became so tall
thanks for the Andre Rieu choir and George Harrison singing my sweet lord
for unrestrained anticipations for dreamless sleep
Many thanks
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Thanks also for buttermilk biscuits
the kind now extinct since mother moved away
for Fannie Emory who taught mom to cook
thanks for granny Greer who helped me be less afraid
and Betty Greer who taught me 'kick the can'
thanks for every song in 'my fair lady'
for leaving on a troop ship from Bremerhaven
and for sailing past the statue of liberty
thanks for the alley behind my childhood church
for when i went to Illinois
with Uncle Charlie
Many thanks
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Thanks also for the sounds of children
singing in laughter some where unseen.
For an injured neighbor able to listen
and two silent cats tentative and still.
Thanks for soft sunlight
and memory of rain
for memory of mother alone in her yard.
Thanks for a beloved brown shawl
sometimes around my shoulder in deepest night.
Thanks for radiant musicians.
for those who dance the night away.
Many thanks,
