I like it when they get together
and talk in voices that sound
like apple trees and grape vines,
and some of them wear hats
and go to Arizona in the winter,
and they all like to play cards.
They will always be the ones
who say "It is time to go now,"
even as we linger at the door,
or stand by the waiting cars, they
remember someone-an uncle we
never knew-and sigh, all
of them together, like wind
in the oak trees behind the farm
where they grew up-a place
I remember-especially
the hen house and the soft
clucking that filled the sunlit yard.
The Aunts
Joyce Sutphen
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Poem topics: house, never, time, wind, winter, place, play, apple, door, stand, talk, soft, uncle, sound, remember, together, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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