Joanna Gilman Hyde

December 4th, 2025

The Tomato-coloured Couch

5:50 am

Eye wonder if Pappy knew

that someday Eye would inherit

His Rosewood Chair

carved in Birmingham, Alabama

by a one-eyed black man —

could Pappy have known

that in December of 2025

Eye would sit in M(eye) re-vamped Livingroom

looking @ the double-carved arm rests

thinking of The Game He played

of The Little Man

starting @ the top of The Roses

& walking down, finger by finger

2 stop @ the tips

of the concave arm rests

2 gaze around, 2 look —

finger by finger

for The Little Girl lying on the floor

@ Pappy’s feet

ecstatic in anticipation

waiting for The Little Man 2 fly

2 launch Himself off The Wooden Cliff

tickling Me as He Landed?