Turkeys in the Mood
by Mary Langer Thompson The fourth graders trace fingers to begin their Thanksgiving drawings then color the bodies purple, orange, green. "Does he look real?" asks one student. The tail is fanned out, body puffed looking huge and proud. "More surreal, like Picasso might have drawn," I say. "Probably after he lost his ear, right?" I decide not to tell her only wild ones appear this way right before mating.
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