Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

CHAMBER

The Hawk Queen Bed 7:45pm

When I am old & dying

I want to lie beside an open window

letting in the waves on air

the freshest murmur of the sea

so that I may be carried off

to My Next Plateau

wrapped inside

The Nautilus

of

Sound

FFU — 798

The Hawk Portico 12:50pm

I got The Best License Plate Ever

picked out at random from a big drawer

by The Lady at The Motor Vehicles Registry —

It proclaims:  FFU

& now My Temporary License

has been removed from the driver’s side

back window

after applications of nail polish remover

& oven cleaner

to get the stick-um off

I got it off

with My Own Spit