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On Sep 8, 2022, at 3:47 PM, Ann Chiappetta via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:


Weekend at Pop’s
By Ann Chiappetta

“Fried ham, fried ham
Cheese and baloney

Pass the macaroni salad
And we’ll have onions pickles and relish
And more fried ham, fried ham, fried ham.”

  *   camp song circa 1970.

family trickles in and out

cool red Berry juice for the kids
Humid air captures and tends the aromas

cooking clouds of sizzling skirt steaks
drift like tantalizing
culinary canaries
enveloping Pop’s sweaty face.

Roasted sweet peppers and
barbequed chicken and Kielbasa

Sun drenched or umbrella shady
all day the eating, drinking
Talking and laughing
During Pop’s summer BBQ.

meat roasting
Beans bubbling
Hot dog slathered in bright mustard
Chili and kraut

The tang of it
Cements the good times to
Tongues and hearts.

Pour from the jug of homemade red
Or maybe grab a brew.

Tell jokes or throw darts
and when it’s over and the coals burn from red to gray
sing the last song before the coming night takes it all away.

2022


Ann M. Chiappetta, M.S.
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