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day laborers

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


Janet Cannon

Previously published in
The Texas Review
(Vol. 28, No. 3 and 4)














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