Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

THE CONTEMPLATIVE

She got off The Bus

at Christian Herald Road

& Mountainview Avenue

to climb up The Hill

holding Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

on Her 4th Grade Hip

Title Showing

THE HAWK SUMMER DECK 1:00pm

I have on My Play Dress:

My hand-embroidered calf-length Mexican House Dress

It’s White

with Black Campeche Stitching

It’s airy around My Lap

when I sit in My Red Deck Chair

one knee up

THE HAWK DECK 12:30pm

I did have A Favourite Toy

and I still have Her:

a lopsided little bear

named “Bear Bear”

Who never spoke

She wore a doll’s bathrobe

and sat languidly

in the vicinity

of My Brother’s tough hefty “Bunny”

Who did speak

using a husky guttural voice