Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk Family Room 7:30pm

“You can write poetry out of anything”

I glibly stated to a friend

who had taken Me out for a late birthday lunch —

Well Watch This — You Can’t–

take watching digital rain on Family Room window screens

& link it, somehow,

to My Hallmark Daughter

not giving Me a birthday card

then surprising Me with one

for Mother’s Day