Thanksgiving Pantoum

THANKSGIVING PANTOUM


I am grateful to the woman I did not want to divorce—
did not keep in front of me against the hurricane force winds,
that mental disease. How else can one explain the inexplicable?
Formation of a tropical depression in the middle of calm seas

did not keep in front of me against the hurricane force winds.
I was happy with 99 percent of our marriage of warm and cold,
formation of a tropical depression in the middle of calm seas.
The lowest air pressure recorded was 882 mb of hurricane Wilma,

I was happy with 99 percent of our marriage of warm and cold,
we survived when Wilma’s eye passed over our condo in 2005,
the lowest air pressure recorded was 882 mb of hurricane Wilma.
My ex-wife wrote a long poem about the destruction around us,

we survived when Wilma’s eye passed over our condo in 2005,
that mental disease. How else can one explain the inexplicable!
I saw a man almost die, a second away from a crashing roof.
I am grateful to the woman I did not want to divorce.