Joanna Gilman Hyde

There’s  a Rock on The Side of The Road

in Barrington where I shop

It has a Mentalist Red John

which I badly want to deflect

with Silver Star Rays

& maybe Red Dots

–

but on this windy Sunday Morning

as I drive on My Mission

I see a Police Car

coming through The Intersection

of Highway 3 & The Causeway

I turn around

I come home

leaving My Cans of Silver & Red

rattling around on the floor

of My Escape