MY SON JUST CALLED

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:40pm

My Life Is Great —

I’m Drinking A Labatt’s Blue

My New Car Is Out Front

An Iridescent Gun Metal Grey

I Can Drive With

Newly Installed Sirius

Set On 90’s On 9

What More Could A Girl

In Her Early 50’s

Possibly Want?

OH!  I Forgot To Tell You

The Name:

Ford Fusion

The Action

Or Process Of Melting By Means Of Intense Heat;

The State of Fluidity As A Result

Of Being Heated 

(Oxford English Dictionary 1993)