(stole this format from Ross Gay
thank you for your kind words moldgold!)

thank you laughter in the sunrise
flour and fingerprints on the plexiglass
john rolling his grapefruit on the bench
thank you IM TIRED OF THIS GRANDPA
thank Tomanto and pillbox bones 
and what did you have for dinner
thank you fish fry
communion wafer moon
fabric banners in the gymnasium
and strangers mouths full of
someone's mamaw's coleslaw
thank you compounding scatterplot magic of growth
thank you the preschool girl climbing the barrier
in front of the wrestling ring
screaming and shaking her fist 
at two wrinkling men play fighting
in stage makeup and spandex
thank you butterfly gimmick
and drag queen and stage name
bedazzled on your ass and 
singing in a basement full of strangers
saying "i am lucky to know you"
thank you a really good pen
thank you guy asleep in a folding chair
beside the river while his fishing rods wait
thank you spider on the 
biggest, purplest mulberry
thank you barn swallow bellies
sparkling the sun through the thunderheads
thank you picture of T
with a dove on their head
and how their jacket still smells like them
how the roadcuts on I-55 sing their absence
in a way that opens me
thank you rabbit hole of 
1900s coal miner baseball leagues
thank you persimmon roots chewing
the dead who planted them 200 years ago
fruiting in november frosts on a 
cemetery hill that would've seen the 
mississippi thank you the wild yeast
on the orange persimmon skin
translucent white like dipped in moonlight
thank you their little hats
how when they're ripe they fall
from this colossal tree and
themselves so fat with sugars and seed thank you
that when they finally hit the ground they 
are pulverized by their own gravity,
by their own sweet richness, 
their own abundance
smeared on crabgrass and gravestone
and i leave only with an almost
that reminds me desire can be its own reward
thank you willi carlisle saying 
"dance like they're proud of you"
thank you little girl introducing herself
to the Schnucks robot stock checker 
in the ice cream aisle
thank you for a moment knowing how good it is
while it is still so good