BED TIME
by Joanna Gilman Hyde
Eliza’s Room 8:11pm
I go to bed at eight o’clock
like a child
back to My Daughter’s Lavender Room
so as not be awakened
before dawn
by various
cats
wanting to be let out
and back in
Eliza’s Room 8:11pm
I go to bed at eight o’clock
like a child
back to My Daughter’s Lavender Room
so as not be awakened
before dawn
by various
cats
wanting to be let out
and back in
Cats can make a bedroom like a central railway station at night time.
In My Lavender Room I get to sleep with the door closed.