A Limited Fork Thanksgiving (Joined in Progress) from the paper: "In the Arc of the Fork: A Journey through Limited Fork Theory and My Imagined Life as a Multispecies Ethnographer" The dinner table is a site for limited fork study. The dinner table is a reconfigurable, expandable location. Leaves can be inserted into tables as when there are exceptional gatherings and there is a need to multiply surface to host a Cornucopia, to host the guests that travel so many forks as highways to converge on Thanksgiving Thursday (to become part of the Cornucopia). Limited Fork exists to construct and to host the Cornucopia. The fork is a tool for gathering. As soon as the fork touches what it gathers, it changes what it gathers - inducing some modification in it – and transforming the world it has gathered from. The gathered something changes the fork, changes the gatherer. What has been gathered sticks to the forks of the tines that gather and branch, branch and gather to stock the pantry (that is itself a poam) for the making of poams. What escapes the pantry, what escapes the fork is free to take on new life, new interactions - always shaped by the contact of failed containment. A limited fork meal consists of anything at any or all scales (of time and place) in various phases of transformation (including all phase changes), in various re-defining states of interaction. The limited fork table adjusts and expands to contain the ever-expanding Cornucopia it attracts, that sticks to its tines (as table leaves). When the limited fork table is stretched to create space for the table leaves, a gap is produced where Cornucopia could fall through. The gap that the limited fork table creates is like the tears in muscle fiber that occur in exercise; it is also like a line break in a traditional poem in that both edge and gap (as niche) are created simultaneously. Consider Moss’s meditation of the line break cut and pasted from her blog Intro to (Limited Fork) Poetry: “The line break is a bifurcation point, a location where an event (the line itself) has obvious opportunity for change. The corner that a line break is also offers multiple directions, some not as well formed as others; so for many interacting with the bifurcation point, only the movement to the next line seems a reasonable choice. It is a reasonable choice, but not the only choice, for the line continues, in all of the directions possible from that bifurcation point. Various conditions and interactions with variables encountered in those directions shape the structure of form of what occurs in a particular location along a particular continuing line” (Original emphasis). The limited fork Thanksgiving table {is like a poem}/{is a poam} and can be broken at any site (not all sites breaking with equal probability or preference) which changes the conditions of what can gather into the Cornucopia. What is gathered into the opening has less to do with fit than with the possibilities of the moment fed from so many tangled streams of forking presence. Limited-infinite possibility saturates every dimension of the moment and as the gathering proceeds in its processes, possibilities are foreclosed as others are enacted as registers of the real. A beauty, gift, and paradox of Limited Fork Theory is that the non-enacted possibilities - that range of infinity that we could call the Foreclosed - remain as part of the feast!