beef stew takes some time
 to simmer while we have fun
 discovering home
 
 (it sits in sunlight
 on a late November day
 waiting to be found)
 
 in stage selections
 and modern airport hotels
 where we say goodbye
 
 it waits for new doors
 open to ideas of
 a sunlit autumn
 
 in our house, our home
 where thanksgiving starts and ends
 all that matters: here