Joanna Gilman Hyde

“Even if the trees

get pulled up

or torn down

it won’t matter

to your mother”

Kristine Zoodedoo

No, it won’t matter to My Mother

She’s dead

with Her Monument to Death beneath Them,

Her white-blossomed Garden of Eden

And why should it matter to Me?

I’m alive

and have

My One Scraggly Apple

in My Back Yard

by The Sea

Joanna Hyde
 March 11th 2012   The Hawk