Stephen Sutherlin

Turning dirt

March 28, 2020
Turning the dirt With Great-Grand-Daddy’s plow

Sharecropper’s till Real familiar somehow

Making quick work Of my little garden plot

He’d make an acre Into food they never bought

Traded with the Osage When he had a good crop

But it never really seems Like my efforts pay out full

Maybe this year’s different Using my ancestral tool