Joanna Gilman Hyde

September 16, 2023

Right After Eye Finished

M(eye) Witch Dress Painting

Hurricane Lee Made The Power

Go Out

So Eye Left M(eye) House

2 Find Comfort @ McDonald’s

In The Form of A Large Decaf

w/ Double Cream.

Eye Kept M(eye) Car Running

Charging Up M(eye) Phone —

2 Go Where? As A Single Woman

w/ No Boyfriend or Pickup Truck

2 Go Wave-watching —

Eye Decided 2 Drive 2 Sherose Island

2 See If Anyone Had Set Up

A Comfort Centre

(That Was Where The Arena

Had Been Occupied By The Red Cross

During The Fires In June)

No Comfort Centre

Butt @  The Adjacent Curling Club

Several Pickup Trucks Abounded

So Eye Decided 2 Walk In

Only 2 Be Met @ A Table

By 2 Elderly Ladies

Who Seemed Taken Aback

By M(eye) Presence

Explaining They Were Hosting

The Annual Antler Show

(For Which You Needed 2 Buy A Ticket)

& The Show Wasn’t Cancelled

Thanks 2 Generators &

“Because The Men Had Put In

Too Much Effort.”

So Eye Looked Through Interior Glass

2 A Long Wall

of Trophied Deer Racks

Lining 1 Side of The Curling Rink

& Quickly Made M(eye) Exit

Back 2 M(eye) Car

Where Eye Sat On The Phone

Texting & Talking

& Watched 3 Parking Lots

Quickly Fill Up

w/ More & More Trucks

& Men In Tee Shirts

(Saw Only 2 Women)

Walking Into The Curling Rink

Housing All Those Stuffed Deer Heads.