Happy Thanksgiving!
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” Or so says Aesop’s Fables. Concentrate will be taking next week off for Thanksgiving. We hope our readers enjoy this time with their families, friends, football, and good food. Not necessarily in that order.
Happy Thanksgiving from the writers, photographers, editors, and programmers at Concentrate!
And feel free to cheer our publication on as we compete in 826Michigan’s Skrabbel For Cheaters this Sunday, downtown at Conor O’Neill’s.
Please enjoy this poem by Emily Dickinson.
One day is there of the series
Termed Thanksgiving day,
Celebrated part at table,
Part in memory.
Neither patriarch nor pussy,
I dissect the play;
Seems it, to my hooded thinking,
Reflex holiday.
Had there been no sharp subtraction
From the early sum,
Not an acre or a caption
Where was once a room,
Not a mention, whose small pebble
Wrinkled any bay,—
Unto such, were such assembly,
‘T were Thanksgiving day.
from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, 1924),
available online at Bartleby.com
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