Carrying Water to the Field by Joyce Sutphen

Carrying Water to the Field by Joyce Sutphen

Author:Joyce Sutphen [Sutphen, Joyce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE005010 Poetry / American / General
Publisher: Nebraska


The Last Things I’ll Remember

The partly open hay barn door, white frame around the darkness,

the broken board, small enough for a child

to slip through.

Walking in the cornfields in late July, green tassels overhead,

the slap of flat leaves as we pass, silent

and invisible from any road.

Hollyhocks leaning against the stucco house, peonies heavy

as fruit, drooping their deep heads

on the doghouse roof.

Lilac bushes between the lawn and the woods,

a tractor shifting from one gear into

the next, the throttle opened,

the smell of cut hay, rain coming across the river,

the drone of the hammer mill,

milk machines at dawn.



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