Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

TIME

Eye sat beneath

His Silver Tree

& heard a bird

I could not see —

I looked and looked

& heard some more —

then saw its yellow

fly off to Yore

Dr Legend

My Captive of nineteen years ago

stood bedraggled

in the night time doorway

of His dank examining room

with Arms of Dishonour

extended