Joyce Sutphen
Bio
How You Learn
In the Family
The Largest Room of My Childhood
The Before I Was Born Blues
All the Colors
The Body I Once Lived In
Krinkletop Cookies
Rhubarb
My Legendary Father
The Kingdom of Summer
Afternoon Concerto
Birds of Stearns County
Canning
The Aunts
Mango Poem
My Luck
Zucchini Bread
Counting to a Hundred
Hanging Wash
Jiffy Mazola Cake
Polka Revival
First Words
Just For the Record
Bringing in the Hay
On the 4th of July
Of Gravel and Clay
Picking Rocks
My Dog Pal
Asking Father About the Horses
In the Time of Pitchforks
Breakfast
Harrow
The Small Fields
Threshing Machine
The Oat Binder
In Autumn
“H”
Silo Solo
What Every Girl Wants
Watching My Father Shave
Grounded
July Mirage
When You Were Small
The First Child
Ultrasound
Waiting for Alicia
Excavation in D
The Imaginary Photo Album
When You Were One
Your First Baseball Season
In This Photo
My Brother’s Hat
These Few Precepts
In Vermeer’s Painting
Grandson
Miguel and Dan in Mexico
I Look at You and Wonder
Happiness
11:11 (Make a Wish)
Things You Didn’t Put on Your Resumé
How We Live
How to Listen
November, 1967
The Room
In the Photo Booth
Thinking Back
School Movies
The Toaster
On the Way to the Farm I Think of My Sister
The Shadow
Myth
The Lost Day
Snow at the Farm
The Last Things I’ll Remember
Like a Diamond
Vocalist - Shelley Johnson
Poem Source: First Words - Joyce Sutphen - Red Dragonfly Press - Minnesota - 2010
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