Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk West Desk Window 11:45am

My Children live

in temporary housing:

Peak’s is an 8′ x 12′ cubicle

in a modular unit

furnished by Cenovus

in Alberta —

Eliza’s is a room in the basement

of a house owned by a single mother

5 minutes away from Acadia University

These are the rooms

meant for not much more than laying down One’s Head —

the private enclaves of worker and student —

These are the habitats of youth

on the move

on Their Way to achieving

some semblance of

permanance