Ann Privateer is a poet, painter, photographer, and retired teacher from Clevelander, Ohio who resides in northern California and spends part of the year in Paris, France where she tries to keep up with her grand daughter, Lilas. Ann's poems have appeared in Ink, Sweat, and Tears: A UK Blog; Sacramento News and Review; Manzanita; Mamazine; Poetry Now; Ophidian; Tapestries; Suisun Valley Review; The Sacramento Anthology:One Hundred Poems; and Tiger's Eye to name a few.

Spring Fig (July 20, 2011. Issue 29.)

thumb size leaves
filled with milk

and promise
hide sticky

bulbs that droop
or shoot up, erect

droplets drip, cry out
woman , each orb

an ovum, sweet seed
fractal flower

purple pleasure
that Eve enjoyed

behind a scalloped leaf
in that familiar painting.