Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

THE OUTING

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:42pm

20 years ago during My First Depression

I departed from The Pink Bedspread

of The Yarmouth Psychiatric Unit

to take some advantage

of an offered outing

in a hospital bus

to venture across

a high-grass board-walk

to nowhere

only to return to My Bedspread

which may well have been

Chrysanthemum Gold

THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE DAY

The Hawk Deck

11:00 am

Eye am dressed in solid grey

& un-ironed white linen

sitting on The Deck, quiet

My Daughter, visiting from College

has just fed Gully

some old rice cakes

& The Crows are subdued

in the trifling fog