Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

NIGHT TIME

The Hawk Utility Room 7:56pm

I stood above

My Mother’s Killer

dying on the basement floor

I thought of all

I’ve done to fill Her

and now can sleep

forever more

I Got My Canvas Today

The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:19pm

My Mother’s Brain Tumour

is dying

on the basement floor

is soon to be

enveloped by

perhaps a silver heart

but

the “roots”

will

survive