A good fatherhood poem read by Garrison Keillor

Author

Paul Banas

Submitted: 07.17.09

I heard Garrison Keillor read this the other morning on the Writer’s Almanac and had to wince at the truth in the first lines.

Milk
by Barton Sutter
The anxious agony of raising kids
Drains the life from parents, who must grow
From cradling to tug of war to slowly letting go
And learn to live with worry till they’re dead.
When I fell in with you, I felt both joy and dread
Because you came with two small girls in tow.
I said, “I do.” I’m glad I did, even though
I sometimes feel I married them instead.

Read the second stanza at The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor | Milk by Barton Sutter or listen here:

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