day laborers
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harvesting down
the road today at
the pecan orchard
big shaking machines
grab trees systematically
sending tons of the
delicacy down to sixty-
cent an hour workers
who gather the festively
strewn bounty into
gunny sacks headed
for the privileged
dining room tables on
thanksgiving far from
where they are or will be
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Poem by Janet Cannon
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Previously published in
The Texas Review
(Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX)
and
Day Laborers
(Janet's chapbook published by Plan B Press)
and
PoetryXHunger.com
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