Hers has a hole
In the place
Where a nipple
Lives.

Makes you
Wonder if there
Was a strategy
There.

How do things
Happen or not
Like so many
Oddities.

To stop and to take
Notice of the be
All and the end
All.



Clovis and Clotilde
Henry and Louis
Cousins and patriots
Sylvie at the door
Where France became
A Christian country
A new chosen people
For David.



Me, my hair, and I
Live on and in
My head, a thought
For every hair
Doomed to go gray
From too much
Thinking.


Ann Privateer is a poet, artist, and photographer. Some of her work has appeared in Third Wednesday, Manzanita, and Entering to name a few.