Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press, 2018) and Rough Honey, awarded the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She received an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.

Thanksgiving

by Melissa Stein

Swan folding its head
into its wing. That snow—
falling into the water. My friend’s
daughter in the car seat,
sleeping. The water is ice.

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