Joanna Gilman Hyde

September 15th, 2026

The Hawk Corner Room

9:30 am

Last night I stood

giving birth 2 a baby

clothed in what I presume

were swaddling clothes

(or mummy wrappings?)

I had 2 uncover

him or her

layer by layer

& then he/she

got lost —

later I was on a solitary road trip

around unfamiliar, made-up places

here in lovely Nova Scotia

driving the slate-blue Ford

Dr Fraudster bought me

without consulting me,

& suddenly found myself

stuck in a cloud of heavy white mist —

it wasn’t fog —

I could see nothing

except a slight opening

2 my upper right

revealing what I guessed

2 be Western Sky

& I felt it was time enough

I had spent

here in lovely Nova Scotia