Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk Queen Bed 6:11pm

If I get sick

I want to be really sick

I register disappointment

with Our Ear Thermometer

being on Low Battery*

With every Flush of My Face

or  Chill of My Limbs

I long to languish

in The Lap of Sympathy

throwing out requests

for tea

*I DO have a fever:

99 degrees F

H is sick too

but He doesn’t have a fever