Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

SELF-PORTRAIT

The Hawk Corner Room 2:43pm

I sit angled on The Couch

half-way facing The Steel-cold Ocean

My Right Arm crooked on a blanket

to hold My Silver Pen

My Knees bent on the edge of a cushion

I am warm

& breathing

KEEPING HOUSE

The Hawk West Desk Window Noon

Dust Balls — mostly fine cat hair —

gather up in My House

like Galactic Formations

always in the same places

though I just found

a New One

looking like a Chickadees’s Nest

below My Husband’s bedside table

where I stood

to fold His Laundry