My daughter's heavier.  Light leaves are flying.
Everywhere in enormous numbers turkeys will be dying
and other birds, all their wings.
They never greatly flew.  Did they wish to?
I should know.  Off away somewhere once I knew
Signifies that this poem takes place in November because of the relation to Thanksgiving. Berryman wrote the poem on November 25 (Thanksgiving day), 1965.
Dream Song 385