QT: "Homesteading" by Joyce Sutphen

[janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Homesteading

Long ago, I settled on this piece of mind,
clearing a spot for memory, making a
road so that the future could come and go,
building a house of possibility.

I came across the prairie with only
my wagonload of words, fragile stories
packed in sawdust. I had to learn how
to press a thought like seed into the ground;

I had to learn to speak with a hammer,
how to hit the nail straight on. When
I took up the reins behind the plow,
I felt the land, threading through me,
stitching me into place.


Joyce Sutphen

Poetry
Volume CLXXVI, Number 1
April 2000
Copyright 2000 by The Modern Poetry Association
Copyright 2000 The Daily Poetry Association
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janet paterson
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