The Woods Harbour Parade
Eye stood beside My Pretty Pictures
next to tables spread with candy apples
caramel apples
decorated cookies on sticks
to see the crowd of parents
with their children in strollers
with a sleeping baby dressed
in a lobster suit
with teenage girls on parade
and a kid with his father’s airbrushed tattoo
of double cat claws
against his right shoulder
Two strollers held little happy people
holding lollipops
and Eye watched the tiny fists collide
as both raised their arms in delight
to thrust their emblems forward
Joanna Gilman Hyde 