The Gypsy Woman Tells Your Fortune
Gail White
You will make a journey over water.
How large a body of water
I cannot say.
You will marry once for love
and once for money
and whichever comes first
you will wish it had been the other.
You will eat too much salt.
Doctors will begin telling you to slow down.
Something you never heard of
will kill your parents.
You will not be ready
to take their place.
Your job will be less satisfactory
than you thought it would be.
So will your children.
Your car will break down
when you can least afford it.
When all seems hopeless,
you will meet a mysterious stranger.
It will be you.
- - -
Gail’s notes: “This is one of my rare free verse poems, but I liked it so well that I put it first in several of my poetry collections.”
- - -
WM note: We also liked Gail’s poem and have included it in this issue as a het-met piece!
- - -
Gail White is a formalist poet whose totem animal is the cat, as evidenced by her chapbook of cat poetry, Catechism. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, where she currently owns two cats and feeds three others.
- - -
Hop to…
Barbara | David E. | David S. | Edison | Ethan | Janet | Jared | John | Mark | Melissa | Mike | Paul | Steven | Susan | Word-Bird