September 16th, 2026
The Tomato-coloured Couch
4:30 pm
We all have our hauntings
& Mine is Maria —
yet Today
that stab in My Heart (cervix & brain)
has been overshadowed
over-glowed
by M(eye) Longest Exchange (so far)
w The Little Man
w whom Eye have what I would say
is a “Good Rapore”
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
September 13th, 2026
The Hawk Deck
9:00 am
Gully, Molly & Ozzy —
how did I obtain
3 pets of 2 syllables
ending in Why?
September 6th, 2026
The Hawk Utility Room
5:26 am
Dr Blair was a Fucker —
He fucked Me
w all His Might —
(which wasn’t much)
on into The Night
of Our Darkest Hour
when Eye got livid
@ His Falsehood —
He never saw Me
for My Worth —
instead He used Me
2 clean & cook
(which Eye didn’t mind doing)
butt He ignored My Capacity
for Artistic Genius —
& when Eye asked Him
if Eye was THAT
He said “No.”
September 6th, 2026
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost
4:15 am
The Crescent Moon
is really the only astrological body
Eye pay any heed 2 —
how It’s caught
in Its celestial travels
around Our Earth —
or is Earth
around The Moon?
September 4th, 2026
The Hawk Slipper Chair
8:30 am
Endlessly
She picks & picks
up Threaded Galaxies
off fields of fabric skies
off layers of cosmic flooring
between thumb & forefinger
2 be deposited
Forever
into Black Holes
of sinks, garbage cans, toilets
September 2nd, 2026
The Hawk Queen Bed
5:26 am
Eye had You that extra week
so that You would grow
so that You could be killed —
that’s how much Your Father
didn’t want You.
But I wanted You — badly enough
to make up a Blue Devil
in Your Place —
“The Impetuous Child”
Who would linger forever
as The Male Counterpart.
(continued)
The stillness has me plastered
2 My Chair.
I can hear
a distant rooster
slight ringing in my ears
my sun hat brushing
the back of The Chair
Molly licking condensation
off the vinyl siding
out here on My Deck
in the sublimity of this rare morning.
8:24 am
Is that Gully over there
on Robert Ross’s Blue Roof
preening in this stillest of mornings?
Ozzy is inside
on the chair Astro died in
& I am situated
w no confines
drinking tea
which needs 2 be heated up.
August 30th, 2026
The Hawk Deck
7:45 am
There is no sound
of The Sea this morning.
Instead I hear Molly purring
a fly buzz
& as I contemplated writing,
a Jay squawked
across my vacant meadow.
August 25th, 2026
The Hawk Corner Room
5:50 pm
He was not just a man —
He was an idea —
Blown Up
into The Biggest Idea
ever created
within My Infinite Mind.
Falling short of concrete reality
He became My Spiritual Love
& perhaps still is
butt with a grain of salt
for good measure
as He remains solidly married
& I solidly single.
Joanna Gilman Hyde 