A Poem for a Thursday #270

Joyce Sutphen served as Minnesota’s poet laureate from 2011-2021. Her first book, Straight Out of View, won the Barnard New Women’s Poets Prize. She has gone on to win many other prizes and honors and has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.

One day, something very old
happened again. The green
came back to the branches,
settling like leafy birds
on the highest twigs;
the ground broke open
as dark as coffee beans.

The clouds took up their
positions in the deep stadium
of the sky, gloving the 
bright orb of the sun
before they pitched it
over the horizon.

It was as good as ever:
the air was filled
with the scent of lilacs
and cherry blossoms
sounded their long
whistle down the track.
It was some glad morning.

Some Glad Morning
Joyce Sutphen