MOTHER, IT’S YOU

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Hawk Kitchen 6:35pm

Mother, It’s You

My Kitchen Witch

hanging above The Kitchen Phone

for the first time

since moving to The Hawk

It’s Your Caricature

drawn by Hardy Bulbs ’66

“The Perennial Phlox At Home”

I would have been Five

when Your Surrounding Book Titles

were dreamt up:

Flames of Passion

My Life & Loves — Frank Harris

Forever Amber

Passion & Greed (A Cookbook) Farmer

Lady Loverly’s Chatter

Slang Dictionary

The Passionate Lips

Hungry Hill

Fanny Hill

Candy (& How To Make It)

Naked Lunch (Cookbook)

The Lustful Heart

Passion’s Slave

Lustful Lips

The floral stockings You were wearing

I remember

You were My Great Mother

& I Am Proud

To Be Your Daughter