Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

FORTITUDE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:34pm

No haiku tonight —

I’ll write something

long & drawn out

like how I conjured up

Nothing

from one of My Thought Cycles

& ended up not knowing

what to think

or why

or how —

I have recovered

here on my Tomato-coloured Couch

where I am comfortable

at Home

relatively relaxed

with A Husband on His Computer

telling Me to take a break

 

The Jig Is Up

The Tomato-coloured Couch 2:50pm

Today in The Little Store

in Clark’s Harbour

which I patronize

as much as I can

I was addressed

by a sardonic neighbour

as “Mrs Blair” — boy

has She got My Number