ANN PRIVATEER

 

 

Uncertain

 

I am certainly uncertain

By just about everything

In these uncertain days.

 

We never know which

Way the wind will blow

Or how important

 

Coal or medicine

Or anything will be

That we see or don’t see

In these uncertain days.

 

The Family

 

Six ladies in their eighties

Sit on a brown brick porch

They smoke cigarettes

While waiting for the parade.

 

Two of them were born and raised

In this very house, all of them

Are cousins whose parents

Began this celebration

 

A hundred years ago, and so

They compare this year’s

With last year’s, sodalities with

Their favorite saints.

 

Soon children dressed

As angels appear, then those

Wearing costumes

From various provinces

And a donkey cart, then

The band comprised

Of old men, the mayor

And those running for office

Citizens and politicians

Arm in arm.

 

ANN PRIVATEER

 

ANN PRIVATEER is an artist, photographer, and a poet. She grew up in the Midwest and now resides in California. Some of her recent work has appeared in Voices and Highland Park to name a few.