Crossing Pine Mountain in winter
because
someone died tonight…
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.
In Harlan…
Are we supposed to cook?
She was going to Mt. Rushmore-
North Dakota
before Cancer called last month.
An empty place at the table
gives thanks
for these Thy many gifts.
In the morning,
Black Friday
Finalizes the funeral plans.
Jim Boggs is from Harlan County Kentucky and has spent most of his life working as a Broadcaster on Radio and Television. It took Jim 21 years and seven states before returning to Eastern Kentucky where he has spent the last 32 years. Jim has been in “Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel,” “Randomly Accessed Poetics,” and featured by Reward Publishing as Poet of the Month in August 2016. He resides in Hazard Kentucky.