THE WROUGHT IRON TABLE

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk Deck 2:22pm

I was raised on an after-school diet

of fairy tales

listened to

on My Mother’s record player

with British accents I absorbed

the lamentations

of The Little Mermaid

Cinderella

Snow White

& Sleeping Beauty

& wrote in My First Adolescent Diary

“Could He Be The One?”