Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

MIXED METAPHOR

The Hawk Portico 6:25pm

When The Waves

At The Back

Have Accompanied Me

Through Midday,

Simmering Down By Evening,

I Come To The Front

To The Hawk Portico

Where I Can Turn My Ear

To A New Batch

I HEAR A WORLD

The Hawk Deck 1:15pm

I Hear My Private World

squawking with an unidentified bird

atop the scraggly apple

waves resounding

just beyond the scrub spruce

the hedge is here, fluttering

with My Laundry on the line

& cats coming & going

from the shaded back deck