By Sally Wahl Constain
Jacksonville Branch

 

Here they sit,

all dressed up,

with frozen poses

hung side by side

above the piano,

registering disapproving looks.

 

They are the ancestors.

 

I wonder if they are ever

just a little bit proud of me

 or my poetry.

 What can they be thinking?

 

And sometimes I wonder

what I will be thinking

one day when,

(who knows when?)

my picture is placed

 next to theirs,

over the piano.