Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Month: June, 2013

I Saw & Heard A Chickadee

The Hawk Deck 2:50pm

There is something like magic

in the stillness here

with only The Birds

— even They have settled —

the breeze is lulling

I cannot even hear the surf

Atop The Scraggly Apple

The Hawk Deck 1:00pm

The Yellow Bird has visited again —

He has not chirped of God

but of His Friend

in another tree

OWNERSHIP

The Hawk Deck 11:30am

I Am God THE OBSERVER

I Am God THE LISTENER

I Am A Human Being

In Love With The Land

Where She Lives

MORNING LIFE

The Hawk Deck 9:55am

I have The Solace

of a Day In June

cool, but garbed in My Grey Bathrobe

I am ready for a cup of tea

& more Bird Song

HOW TO STACK A POEM

June 4, 2013 The Hawk West Desk Window 10:30pm

I Have Three Regrets:

Self Organizing Galaxy

ended up buried

& capped

in The Orangetown Dump

in Rockland County, New York

–

Five Copies

of My 364-page Manuscript Monument

to The Death of My Mother

ended up shredded

and put out by

the side of the road

here on The Hawk

–

The Third

was of My Body

and doesn’t fall within

This Category of Art

but the regret I feel

for this death

will never be acceptable

–

How Different Would My Life Have Been —

How Different From The Comparative Perfection

In Which It Is Lived NOW?

BONUM NON EST IN DEO:

On the Indistinction of the One and the

Exclusion of the Good in Meister Eckhart

“I Am The Child —

Big Black Book Upon My Lap

A Smattering Of The Universe

Bespotting This Page

Of Lights

From My Diamond Rings”

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:47pm

A Yellow Bird Told Me To Write This

The Hawk Deck 11:25pm

I Am God

And From God

I Am Not Separate

From The Tiny Wing-ed Bug

On My White Sleeve

THIS MORNING

The West Desk Window 9:11am

I kissed My Doctor/Husband good-bye

This Morning

for His 13-hour shift —

when He got out of His Bath

He said This Month makes

50 Years

ASSOCIATION

The Hawk West Desk Window 2:40pm

We get into our vehicular shells

& have no idea

Who might happen to see Us

& be affected by the colour

or shape

of what We’re driving

or by Who’s at The Wheel

in perpetuum

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:40pm

Oh that spinning game

where the grown-up grabs

the child’s wrists

& swings him/her around

& around

am I in this game

in the path of Earth & Moon

& that Adult —

Who is He?