Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk West Desk Window 10:52am

My Depression today is

a Big Red Truck Cab

inadequately hooked up

to an old mobile home

while I sit at My West Desk Window

waiting for A Parade

–

inside The Big Red Truck Cab

The Driver & His Partner sit

waiting for an excavator

to handle the job

of pulling the mobile home out

a long straight drive

around a right-angle corner

onto the road

this operation takes about forty minutes

–

next The Big Red Truck Cab drives out

& parks up ahead on the road

behind a leading white pick-up with warning lights

I make some Toast & Marmalade

& watch from My West Desk Window

–

The Big Red Truck Cab is re-hooked

to the old mobile home

& fills the road with Its catch

another truck brings up the rear

with a big red & white WIDE LOAD sign

–

I go downstairs to put on the kettle

I can watch through My House Side Door

The Parade of heavy equipment

is set

The Kettle boils

I pour My Tea

I go to look at My Line Up

It’s gone!