Joyce Sutphen Place Poems
- 1. The Aunts
I like it when they get together
and talk in voices that sound
like apple trees and grape vines,
... - 2. A Kind Of Villanelle
I will have been walking away:
no matter what direction I intended,
at that moment, I will have been walking
... - 3. At The Moment
Suddenly, I stopped thinking about Love,
after so many years of only that,
after thinking that nothing else mattered.
... - 4. The Exorcism
It was homemade and primitive,
like pulling a tooth with a string
and a slamming door, like taking out
an appendix by kerosene light
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