Joanna Gilman Hyde

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July 12, 2013

ARMOURED BIRD

The Tomato-coloured Couch 8:22pm

I just saw A Bird

atop The Scraggly Apple

(had time to get the binoculars)

I could swear It had A Wing

Its Left Wing

& Tail

hammered out of Silver

like armoured plating

beneath Its iridescent plumage

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July 12, 2013

SHE FELL IN LOVE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:35pm

She Fell In Love

with The Little Man

on October 22, 1993

–

when She felt a compulsion

to SAY something

& She didn’t know what IT would be

–

At Eight in the morning She went

to The Hospital where He was working

She asked for Him at The Front Desk

Another Doctor was suggested

but She refused, saying She would wait

–

after twenty minutes

She was directed to a little room

an examining room

where He stood before Her with folded arms

–

“I have something I must say –”

He tried to cut Her off by saying

“These things have happened before –”

“But I am compelled to say IT.  I must say IT —

Would You believe Me, would You accept

What I have to SAY?”

–

He nodded & said, “Yes, go ahead, tell Me –”

–

Her Arms lifted up & out to both sides

as She was seated:

“There Is A God”

as She rose to His Unfolded Embrace

 

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July 12, 2013

THE SUMMATION VERSION

The Hawk Deck 5:35pm

After The Shower Of Lights

The Little Girl was not So Little

She had been struck over The Head

by A Very Giant Object

attached to God

& He wasn’t going to let Her away

so easily

That Night

after relatives and The Nurse Do Do

took Her to the hospital

where Her Mother had died

four days earlier

The New Big Girl was seen by A Little Man

Who asked all the right questions

& ordered a room

–

In That Darkened Hospital Room

in Shelburne, Nova Scotia

March 31st, 1993

The Little Girl who was no longer Little

saw floating in The Darkness

a loose brown cylindrical mass

which slowly opened from its centre

to reveal nothing less

than The Meaning Of Life

couched within a Joke of such magnitude

that only God could have thought It up:

You Are The Reason For Schizophrenia

She puzzled over this and questioned Her Sanity

& decided that if She could question Her Sanity

She was not “Insane”

–

The next morning, April Fool’s Day, The Little Man

came into Her Room

& as She tried to assume some explanation

as to what had befallen Her

The Little Man stood at the foot of Her Bed

& said, “You won’t find anything about this in any medical text books

but some people who have had these kinds of experiences

are called Seers.”

She Fell In Love With Him

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July 12, 2013

THE SIGN

The Tomato-coloured Couch 3:10pm

Once there was a little girl

whose mother died from a brain tumour

& the little girl didn’t sleep for four days

On the fourth day, March 31st 1993

the little girl looked for a sign

that she was going to be al-right

& the phone rang —

a nurse from the hospital was calling

to see if the little girl was al-right

& when the little girl said:

“DoDo, I Don’t Know How I Am”

The Nurse said She Would Come Right Over

The Little Girl hung up the phone

& went into Her Mother’s Kitchen

(but She doesn’t remember why)

whereupon She was struck

with the realization of an all-knowing

all-seeing Presence

She didn’t know what had just happened

so She went back to the daybed

where She had been trying to sleep

& as She sat, was sitting

The Cathedral Ceiling above

suddenly filled with Silver Streaks

of Light

Showering Down Upon Her

as She Cried Out

“Oh My God!

OH MY GOD!

OH MY GOD!”

 

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July 12, 2013

SOBEY’S

The Tomato-coloured Couch 12:45pm

Sobey’s is a home-grown grocery operation

with A Parking Lot

as one of the most innocent

& unassuming

public spaces

in existence

(at least around here)

Unsuspecting Shoppers

push Their Full Carts to Their Cars

push Empty Carts back

to The Cart Corral

Which says “In The Event

of An Emergency

Gather Here”

What is Sobey’s 

preparing

for?

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