ANSWER: MY BLUE JAY
by Joanna Gilman Hyde
The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:55pm
Who gave Me This Life
where I can write
poetry all day
& look out the windows —
Who gave Me This Place
filled with birds
& house dust
lint balls I don’t have
to examine to see
They’re nothing more
than Galaxies —
Who gave Me This Start
out of the ebb
of hospitalizations
straddled between
two husbands, a dead mother
& The Love Of A Puny Man
I somehow see
as Heroic?
Joanna Gilman Hyde 
“…lint balls I don’t have
to examine to see….”
Wowza!
Natalie, I am overwhelmed with your attention to my work — I really did miss you, and I feel by your comments that your must be fine — I am very relieved.
Your work is stunning, as always. It’s good to be reading again 🙂