[the Writing of Kuypers]    [JanetKuypers.com]    [Bio]    [Poems]    [Prose]




poker face

every once in a while
mom would play cards with us
but her poker face is just awful

she’d draw a card,
one she evidently wanted

look at it down her bifocals
raise her eyebrows

“ooh, ooh, ooh!!”
she’d say

we all knew then
we should fold


Copyright Janet Kuypers.
All rights reserved. No material
may be reprinted without express permission.







the book The Beauty and the Destruction