Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

FAME & FORTUNE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:00pm

One Day My Writing —

My Scrawling Penmanship —

Will Be So Valuable

The General Public Will Scrounge

In Sobey’s Garbage Cans

For My Discarded Shopping Lists

SPRING?

The Hawk Outpost 8:19am

The blinding glare of sun

off the water

lies on this first day of spring

yet We are set, still

inside deep winter

with stars of light

glinting off My ice-covered

deck