Tuesday, December 05, 2006

REAL RESUME

Poem: "Things You Didn't Put On Your Resumé" by Joyce Sutphen.

Things You Didn't Put On Your Resumé

How often you got up in the middle of the night
when one of your children had a bad dream,

and sometimes you woke because you thought
you heard a cry but they were all sleeping,

so you stood in the moonlight just listening
to their breathing, and you didn't mention

that you were an expert at putting toothpaste
on tiny toothbrushes and bending down to wiggle

the toothbrush ten times on each tooth while
you sang the words to songs from Annie, and

who would suspect that you know the fingerings
to the songs in the first four books of the Suzuki

Violin Method and that you can do the voices
of Pooh and Piglet especially well, though

your absolute favorite thing to read out loud is
Bedtime for Frances and that you picked

up your way of reading it from Glynnis Johns,
and it is, now that you think of it, rather impressive

that you read all of Narnia and all of the Ring Trilogy
(and others too many to mention here) to them

before they went to bed and on way out to
Yellowstone, which is another thing you don't put

on the resumé: how you took them to the ocean
and the mountains and brought them safely home.

3 Comments:

Blogger Pat Paulk said...

No, you don't, but should. It is a "real" resume. I raised my 3 for almost 2 years by myself. Enjoyed the read!!

6:14 PM, December 05, 2006  
Blogger J.B. Rowell said...

This is not my resume/poem, but I like the idea. I think I may try it as a prompt . . . I so admire single parents - hoe did you do it Pat?

6:52 AM, December 06, 2006  
Blogger Pat Paulk said...

With fear and trembling.

8:23 AM, December 07, 2006  

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