The long day softens,
and just as my body begins
to ease its beseeching,
her family arrives—
her mother’s heartless fingernails,
her little brother’s fury,
Grandpa Harry’s penis joke,
and, fresh from smoking
weed out by the garbage cans,
her sister, careening, her attempt
to kiss me on the mouth,
stumbling, falling onto the kitchen floor—
Thanksgiving!