Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch 8:15pm

Hunter has a bunch of red roses

& He’s at work tonight

He’ll see them when He gets home

He’ll see them in a lime-green glass juice pitcher

— for want of a sizeable vase —

here they are in the living room

they’re beautiful — full & unmarked

with His Birthday Card from This Morning

standing open