Closeup of pink buds on a Thanksgiving cactus
Poetry

The Thanksgiving Cactus

by Nathan Spoon
Here in a chair in a cozy corner of this room, under the glow of a lamp, with…
Nathan Spoon

Nathan Spoon

About the author

Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet with learning disabilities and written expression disorder. His poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-DayAmerican Poetry ReviewBennington ReviewGulf CoastPoetryPoetry Daily, and swamp pink, as well as the anthologies The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and EssaysHow to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. He is editor of Queerly and an ally of timemedicine.org.