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Sharon Waller Knutson


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The green grass grows
day after day as the rain
pours down in pitchers
and still the lawn mowers
don't show up. I saw them
on the highway
, my husband
says.They'll be here soon.
We watch and wait as the grass
grows thick and tall. Finally
my husband makes a call
in the evening. My lawn
needs mowing
, he says.
We wake up to mooing
and bellowing and the cows
chewing the grass
and by noon they've mowed
the lawn on all the acres.

From He Puts on His Poker Face (Cyberwit.net)
Used here with permission.


Sharon Waller Knutson lives in a house her husband, Albert, built out of clay from the land on a dirt road in the middle of a wildlife habitat and open range of the Arizona desert. A retired journalist, she writes poetry for readers who don’t normally read poetry. In 2014, Sharon sold her chapbook, My Grandmother Smokes Chesterfields, to winter visitors from all over the world in a café where her husband played guitar and sang country music. Her customers told her they expected her to publish a new poetry book when they returned each year so, in 2015, she published Desert Directions, about her life in the desert. In 2016, she published They Affectionately Call Her a Dinosaur, poems about her customers and other seniors in her life who started new careers, businesses, and relationships after they retired. In 2017, she published I Did it Anyway, poems about how she broke the glass ceiling in the newspaper business in the ‘60s and ‘70s, when women were typically relegated to the society pages. Many more books followed, and now Sharon maintains an entertaining blog called Storyteller Poetry Review. Sharon and Albert (now retired from his music gig) stay busy raising assorted critters and enjoying their 11 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

                              

 


Post New Comment:
jamvan:
wonderfully whimsical :)
Posted 03/03/2025 11:04 PM
EstherJ:
Ha Ha Ha! What a surprise ending!
Posted 02/13/2025 10:12 AM
Judy:
Sharon seems to so much of the time capture my life on the farm! The only kind of lawn mowers to have!
Posted 02/13/2025 10:02 AM
Jo:
I have enjoyed reading Sharon's poems before and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I'm going on to her blog now. What an interesting couple! I can see why people like her poetry. Thank you. We're snowed in here and it's still snowing. I'm heading out to Sharon's place.
Posted 02/12/2025 08:14 PM
NormaB:
I thought only goats could do that!
Posted 02/12/2025 07:55 PM
peggy.turnbull:
Thanks for the chuckle!
Posted 02/12/2025 04:59 PM
Tom Sharpe:
Been there, done that.
Posted 02/12/2025 04:23 PM


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